Filipino-owned organizations exhibit a

different organizational culture as compared

to their foreign counterparts. Filipino and
foreign culture in organizations exert big
influence on how managers do their
functions and how their subordinated
respond to rules/regulations and leadership
styles. Therefore, organizational culture is a
critical factor in numerous organizational
endeavors.
 Shared Values and Beliefs of
Filipinos
 Different people from around the world have their own
set of values or beliefs that they share and consider
significant as a group or a community.
 3 primary Filipino values:
 Social acceptance – this value focuses on the desire of
Filipinos to be accepted and treated well by others –
his or her family, relatives, friends, and the members of
communities/organizations where he or she belongs –
in accordance with his or her status, for what he or she
is, and for what he or she has accomplished.
 Economic Security – this value emphasizes that one
must financial stability and that he or she must be able
to stand on his or her own two feet, without incurring
debt in order to meet his or her basic material needs.
 Social Mobility- this value is concerned with his or
her desire to move up to the social ladder, to another
higher economic level, to a higher job position, to a
position of respect in his or her family or in the
community where he or she lives or in the
organizations where he or she belongs.
 Foreign Influence
Some examples cited by Kreitner and Kinicki(2013) are
the following cultural dimensions:

• Gender Egalitarianism- refers to the amount of

effort which must be put into minimizing gender
discrimination and role inequalities.
• Assertiveness – refers to how confrontational and
dominant individuals should be in social relationships.
 Performance Orientation- refers to how individuals
should be rewarded for improvement and excellent.
 Humane Orientation- refers to how mush society
should encourage and reward people for being kind,
fair, friendly, and generous.
 Cultural
Relativism Ethnocentrism
-refers to the different beliefs that one’s own way of
interpretations of the same or life or culture is superior to
similar behavior by members others.
of different cultures.
•It is important to understand
•It is important to interpret that people develop culture
the actions of the members of through adaptation to their
other groups in terms of their surroundings
particular cultures.