Organizational Culture

Monday, August 9th 2010


Why Organizational Culture?

According with the definition that the teacher gave; culture “is a compound of habits, behaviors, customs and some many different ways to interact in order to have an identity”.
The Organizational Culture is important, because:
1. Generate human resources, which means to be competitive.
2. Generate Cultural paradigms.

The generation of Organizational Culture has different steps, which are very important at the moment of constructing the Organizational Culture inside the company, with the purpose of obtaining good results inside of it, those steps are:
1. Philosophy of the founders.
2. The selection of the criteria.
3. The Top Management
4. The Socialization.
5. The last step is the Organizational Culture, which depends on the proper functioning of the above steps.

The way that people in the company sees the Organizational Culture is known as Subjective Vision, which has the following characteristics:
a. Shared assumptions, which means to have a collective behavior.
b. Shared values, means in what people believe.
c. Shared meanings, means the way that people interpret the actions taken inside the company.
d. Shared Understandings, means, which it helps to understand why certain decisions and changes are taken inside the company.
e. Shared corporate image, means on how people sees the company, its development, actions and image.

There are several characteristics of the Organizational Cultures, which are:
1. Members’ identity.
2. Emphasis on groups, not people.
3. Indirect focus on people.
4. Integration of units.
5. Control.
6. Risk tolerance.
7. Rewards criteria.
8. Emphasis to ends or to means.
9. Open system approach.
These characteristics are really important to the development of the organizational culture, because through the good functioning of these ones would be a great functioning of the company.

As is shown in the picture it's really important to fulfill all these characteristics and steps of the organizational culture, with the purpose of having a good development and accomplishment of it and all the goals that the company has established; and trying to avoid the breaking of the structure.


BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Teacher's slides and explanation.
- Image. "Take CARE of your Organizational Culture: Engage the Frontline Personnel". (Online:http://www.mysteryshoppinglive.com/take-care-of-your-organizational-culture-engage-the-frontline-personnel/)