This document discusses organizational culture and the OCTAPACE model. It defines organizational culture as shared assumptions, values and beliefs that influence employee behavior. The document then summarizes Nokia's culture, which focuses on values, performance-based rewards, growth opportunities, and work-life balance. It also outlines seven elements of culture. Finally, the OCTAPACE model for assessing culture is introduced, with openness, trust, confrontation, proactivity, autonomy, collaboration and experimentation described as key dimensions.

1. OCTAPACE
Organization Culture
Presented by-
Mayank Singhal
(Management Trainee at GLBIMR)
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2. CULTURE
• Culture can be defined in numerous ways. In the words of
anthropologist E.B. Taylor, it is “that complex whole which
includes knowledge , belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other
capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
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3. ORGANIZATION CULTURE
• Organization culture is a system of shared assumptions, values, and beliefs which
governs how people behave in organizations. These shared values have a strong
influence on the people in the organization and dictate how they dress, act, and
perform their job.
• According to NEEDLE (2004),
Organizational culture represents the collective values, beliefs and principles of
organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market,
technology, strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture.
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4. Organizational culture at NOKIA
• Nokia’s culture ascribes to the nokia employee proposition which the firm describes as “a
concrete employment offering for each employee from the very first NOKIA day onwards.”
• Elements of this proposition
 The nokia way and values: structure of the company provides speed and flexibility in
decision making. Importance is given to customer satisfaction., achievement orientation ,
fostering change and employee participation.
 Performance-based rewards: provides annual based salary, incentives, bonuses, possible
participation in equity plan, and other local benefits. It offers rewards to employees on the
basis of both individual and team achievements.
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5. PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL GROWTH: believes in developing the
people in terms of skills. Employees are encouraged to improve their
competencies through job rotation. The co. followed INVESTING-IN-PEOPLE(
IIP) performance management system.
WORK-LIFE BALANCE: co. maintain work-life balance. NOKIA made
efforts to improve this , tele-working, mobile working, flexible working hours ,
study leave, health-care services etc.
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6. Elements of culture
There are seven elements of culture :-
Social Organization
Customs and Traditions
Religion
Language
Arts and Literature
Forms of Government
Economic systems
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7. OCTAPACE DIMENTIONS
OPENNESS
TRUSTCONFRONTATION
PROACTION
AUTONOMYCOLLABORATION
EXPERIMENTATION
AUTHENTICITY
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8. OPENNESS
• Spontaneous expression
of feelings and thoughts
and sharing of these
without defensiveness
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9. CONFRONTATION
• Facing rather than shying
from the problems
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10. TRUST
• Referred to maintaining the
confidentiality and mutual
understanding
• Reflect in a sense of
assurance of help when need
arise
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11. AUTHENTICITY
• Congruence between what
one feels, says and does
• It reduces dissonances
between members of the
organizations
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12. PRO ACTIVITY
Taking initiative and pre-
planning
• Feeling
• Thinking
• Action
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13. AUTONOMY
• Releasing power that the
employee already posses
• Individuals enjoy freedom
of action
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14. COLLABORATION
• Working together for
mutual benefits
• It develop team spirit
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15. EXPERIMENTATION
• Promoting creative and
innovation in the
organization
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16. Thank
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