The document discusses organizational culture and various frameworks for understanding it. It defines culture as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws, and habits acquired by people in a society. An organizational culture includes the beliefs, assumptions, and values held by an organization. The document outlines Hofstede's cultural dimensions framework, which identifies six issues that define a society's culture, and the OCTAPACE model for organizational culture, which includes ethics, values, beliefs, attitudes, norms, environment, and climate. It describes the eight elements of OCTAPACE culture: openness, confrontation, trust, authenticity, proactivity, autonomy, collaboration, and experimentation.

1. Organizational
Culture

2. What is culture ?
• can be defined in numerous ways
• It is that complex whole which inclues
knowledge , belief ,art, morals, law, custom , and
any other capabilities and habits acquired by
man, as a member of society.

3. What is Organizational
culture ?
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BELIEFS ASSUMPTIONS VALUES

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5. COMPETING VALUES
FRAMEWORK
• Developed by Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn,
university of Michigan
• Based on empirical research on factors that make
Organisations effective
• Useful for understanding cultural / behaviour patterns
from the individual to the organisational level .

7. “Geert Hofstede
(2 October 1928 – 12 February
2020 )
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Geert Hofstede, assisted by
others, came up with six basic
issues that society needs to
come to term with in order to
organize itself. These are
called dimensions of culture.
Each of them has been
expressed on a scale that runs
roughly from 0 to 100.

8. What did he do ?
▸ Dutch social psychologist , IBM employee, and
Professor
▸ well known for his pioneering research on cross-
cultural groups and organizations
▸ Best known for developing one of the earliest and
most popular frameworks for measuring cultural
dimensions in a global perspective
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9. Hofstede’s
Cultural
Dimesnsions

11. Organization culture
[ OCTAPACE]

12. OCTAPACE Culture
1. OCTAPACE CULTURE includes ethics,
values, beliefs, attitudes, norms, ethos,
climate, environment and culture.
2. A culture with OCTAPACE values has the
greater chance of achieving high
involvement and satisfaction

14. ▸ 1. Openness
▸ Spontaneous
expression of feelings
and thoughts.
▸ No Defensiveness
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15. • 2. Confrontation
Facing rather than
shying from
problems

16. 3. Trust
Maintaining confidentiality
and mutual understanding.
Sense of assurance of help
when need arise.

17. 4. AUTHENTICTY
Inspires loyalty and
engagement.
exude self-confidence,
passion and
trustworthiness.

18. 5.PROACTIVITY
Taking initiative
Pre planning
Taking action

19. 6. Autonomy
Autonomy is
independence in one's
thoughts or actions.
Freedom of action.

20. 7. Collabaoration
Working together for
mutual benefits
Develops team spirit

21. 8.Experimentation
Promotes creativity
and innovation in the
organization

22. Thank you
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Rashi Jain Shivam Taneja