Culture plays a very significant role in any organization by communicating information about the overall acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Culture communicates whether the organization expects its managers to be aggressive or conservative in decisions-making, generous or moderate in supporting social causes and ruthless or kind in competitive dealings.
Some organizations have clear, strong and well-defined culture whereas: others have ambiguous, weak and poorly defined cultures. Most managers agree that a strong and clear culture is preferable to weak and vague culture because it helps to provide a common frame of reference for managerial decision-making and a wide variety of other organizational activities.
An organizational culture generally lakes shape over time and is often deeply influenced by the values of the organizational founders. As organizational culture evolves, various symbols, stories, heroes, slogans and ceremonies also come into being. These, then, serve to maintain and perpetuate the culture through subsequent generations of employees.
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