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This document discusses organizational culture. It defines organizational culture as the shared meanings, beliefs, and values of members of an organization. It also describes different types of organizational cultures like academy, baseball team, club, and fortress cultures. The importance of organizational culture is explained as it influences employee motivation, competition, and unity. Factors like employees, business nature, and goals affect organizational culture. The document also provides tips for influencing and changing organizational culture.
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- 2. Prof. Dr. Monga. Presented By : Sneha Chavan
- 3. What is Organizational Culture? • A system of meaning shared by the organization’s members • Cultural values are collective beliefs, assumptions, and feelings about what things are good, normal, rational, valuable, etc. • Innovation and risk taking
- 4. Meaning • The values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization. • Organizational culture is the sum total of an organization's past and current assumptions, experiences, philosophy, and values that hold it together, and is expressed in its self- image, inner workings, interactions with the outside world, and future expectations. • It is based on shared attitudes, beliefs, customs, express or implied contracts, and written and unwritten rules that the organization develops over time and that have worked well enough to be considered valid. Also called corporate culture.
- 5. Types of Culture • Academy Culture • Employees are highly skilled and tend to stay in the organization, while working their way up the ranks. The organization provides a stable environment in which employees can development and exercise their skills. Examples are universities, hospitals, large corporations, etc. • Baseball Team Culture • Employees are "free agents" who have highly prized skills. They are in high demand and can rather easily get jobs elsewhere. This type of culture exists in fast- paced, high-risk organizations, such as investment banking, advertising, etc. • Club Culture • The most important requirement for employees in this culture is to fit into the group. Usually employees start at the bottom and stay with the organization. The organization promotes from within and highly values seniority. Examples are the military, some law firms, etc. • Fortress Culture • Employees don't know if they'll be laid off or not. These organizations often undergo massive reorganization. There are many opportunities for those with timely, specialized skills. Examples are savings and loans, large car companies, etc.
- 6. Importance of Organization Culture • The culture decides the way employees interact at their workplace. A healthy culture encourages the employees to stay motivated and loyal towards the management. • The culture of the workplace also goes a long way in promoting healthy competition at the workplace. Employees try their level best to perform better than their fellow workers and earn recognition and appreciation of the superiors. It is the culture of the workplace which actually motivates the employees to perform.
- 7. Contd… • Every organization must have set guidelines for the employees to work accordingly. • The culture of an organization represents certain predefined policies which guide the employees and give them a sense of direction at the workplace. Every individual is clear about his roles and responsibilities in the organization and know how to accomplish the tasks ahead of the deadlines. • No two organizations can have the same work culture. It is the culture of an organization which makes it distinct from others. • The work culture goes a long way in creating the brand image of the organization. The work culture gives an identity to the organization. In other words, an organization is known by its culture. • The organization culture brings all the employees on a common platform. The employees must be treated equally and no one should feel neglected or left out at the workplace. It is essential for the employees to adjust well in the organization culture for them to deliver their level best. • The work culture unites the employees who are otherwise from different back grounds, families and have varied attitudes and mentalities. The culture gives the employees a sense of unity at the workplace…
- 8. Factors Affecting Organization Culture • The first and the foremost factor affecting culture is the individual working with the organization. The employees in their own way contribute to the culture of the workplace. The attitudes, mentalities, interests, perception and even the thought process of the employees affect the organization culture. • Example - Organizations which hire individuals from army or defense background tend to follow a strict culture where all the employees abide by the set guidelines and policies. The employees are hardly late to work. It is the mindset of the employees which forms the culture of the place. Organizations with majority of youngsters encourage healthy competition at the workplace and employees are always on the toes to perform better than the fellow workers.
- 9. Contd…. • The nature of the business also affects the culture of the organization. Stock broking industries, financial services, banking industry are all dependent on external factors like demand and supply, market cap, earning per share and so on. When the market crashes, these industries have no other option than to terminate the employees and eventually affect the culture of the place. • The culture of the organization is also affected by its goals and objectives. The strategies and procedures designed to achieve the targets of the organization also contribute to its culture. • Individuals working with government organizations adhere to the set guidelines but do not follow a procedure of feedback thus forming its culture. Fast paced industries like advertising, event management companies expect the employees to be attentive, aggressive and hyper active.
- 10. Influencing Culture of Your Organization • Emphasize what’s important. This includes widely communicating goals of the organization, posting the mission statement on the wall, talking about accomplishments and repeating what you want to see in the workplace. • Reward employees whose behaviors reflect what’s important. • Discourage behaviors that don’t reflect what’s important. There is no need to punish or cause prolonged discomfort. Rather, you want to dissuade the employee from continuing unwanted behaviors by giving them constructive feedback, verbal warnings, written warnings, or firing them. • Model the behaviors that you want to see in the workplace. This is perhaps the most powerful way to influence behaviors in the workplace. For example, if you want to see more teamwork among your employees, then involve yourself in teams more often.
- 11. Understanding the Culture of Your Organization?
- 12. Changing Organizational Culture • Reasons for changes in work culture: • A new management, a new team leader, a new boss brings a change in the organization culture. A new employee but obvious would have new ideas, concepts and try his level best to implement them. He would want the employees to work according to him. His style of working, behavior and ideologies would definitely bring a change in the work culture. • Financial loss, bankruptcy, market fluctuations also lead to change in the work culture of the organization. When an organization runs into losses, it fails to give rewards and appraisals to the employees as it used to give earlier. • Acquiring new clients might cause a change in the work culture. The employees might have to bring about a change in their style of working to meet the expectations of the new clients. • The employees on their own might realize that they need to bring a change in their attitude, perception and style of working to achieve the targets at a much faster rate. Such self-realization also changes the work culture.