Organizational rules and culture presented by Dr Zahir Ajab to FMOH staff

1. Organizational culture
and rules
Presented by Dr, Zahir Ajab
MD, MPH
Deputy DG, HPD
Federal Ministry of Health Sudan

2. Presentation OBJECTIVES
 Understanding organizational culture
and its effect on performance
 How are members socialized and
acculturated?
 Setting rules for our organization

3. ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
What is Culture:
Culture is a system of values, beliefs, shared
meanings, norms and traditions that
distinguish one group from another.
 Based on:
1. identity
2. nationality
3. social class
4. gender
5. Racio-ethnicity
6. the organizational itself

4. ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
 Definition of Organizational Culture:
Socially acquired and shared rules of
conduct that are manifested in the
organization’s artifacts, perspectives,
values, and assumptions.
 Organizational culture serves as a
foundation for the management system
and its behaviors and practices

5. Effects of Organizational Culture
 Impacts employee motivation
 Affects group productivity and
performance
 Constrains or supports organizational
strategies and goals
 May foster or hinder innovation
 Provides meaning and direction for
employees

6. Assumptions of Innovative Versus
Stable Cultures
INNOVATION:
•People are proactive
and can be trusted
•Truth is found by
personal investigation
and testing
•Future oriented
•We can master the
environment
•Relationships are
based on mutual
respect and equality
STABILITY:
•People are lazy and
can’t be trusted
•Truth resides in the
Boss
•Oriented to the past or
present
•We are controlled by
our environment
•Relationships are
based on authority

7. ORGANIZATIONAL
SOCIALIZATION
The process of conveying the organization's
goals, norms and preferred ways of doing
things to members.
This is done by the:
 development of work abilities
 acquisition of appropriate role behaviors
 adjustment to work group’s norms and
values

8. ORGANIZATIONAL
SOCIALIZATION
SOCIALIZATION IS ACCOMPLISHED BY:
 Rituals
 Stories
 Language
 Role Modeling
 Formal Methods
Training
Performance Appraisal
Promotion Decisions

9. ACCULTURATION
 Acculturation is the process for resolving
cultural differences and of accomplishing
cultural change and adaptation between
groups.
– Usually there is a merger with a dominant
culture.
– Often it is a process of cultural exchange
between entering members and the
organizational culture of their employers

10. Setting rules for our organization
 Purpose of the work
 Using resources
 Roles and responsibilities
 Understand each other’s personality
 Communication
 Trust fairness
 Monitoring and evaluation
 Learning Culture

11. HAVE WE MET OUR LEARNING
OBJECTIVES?
 Understanding organizational
culture
 How are members socialized and
acculturated?
 Setting rules for our organization