FACTORS AFFECTING ORGANIZATIONAL

CULTURE
Presented By
GROUP 7
Chaitrali Nare (MM1921507) Aditya Oak (MM1921392)

Keyur Kuntal (MM1921388) Rajat Mukherjee (MM1921385)

Harshdeep Upadhayay Abhijeet Sarnaik (MM1921460)

(MM1921378)
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CONTENT
• What is organization culture?
• Why should we care about organization culture?
• What do cultures do?
• Creating and sustaining culture
• Factors affecting organization culture
• Conclusion

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What is Organizational Culture?
• Defined as the underlying beliefs, assumptions, values
and ways of interacting in an organization
• Contribute to the unique social and psychological
environment of an organization.
• Refers to a system of shared meaning held by members that
distinguishes the organization from other organizations.

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Why Should we Care about
Organizational Culture?
• “Culture is how organizations ‘do things’.” — Robbie Katanga

• “In large part, culture is a product of compensation.”— Alec

Haverstick

• “Organizational culture defines a jointly shared description of an

organization from within.” — Bruce Perron

• “Culture is the organization’s immune system.” — Michael

Watkins
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What Do Culture Do?

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What Do Culture Do?
• Encourage employee to stay motivated and loyal
• Boundary defining role
• Brings all to common platform
• Conveys identity of organization

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Creating and Sustaining Culture
• How a Culture Begins
 Ultimate source of an organization’s culture is its founders.
 Founders have the vision of what the organization should be.

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Creating and Sustaining Culture
• Keeping a Culture Alive
• Selection
 Identify and hire individuals with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to
perform successfully.
• Top Management
 Establish norms of behavior.

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Factors Affecting Organization
Culture
• Leadership

• The People You Hire

• Work Environment

• The Work you Do

• Clients/Customers

• Human Approach

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Leadership
• Single largest factor affecting the organizational culture
• The managers and executive team at an organization
have a massive impact on how the work environment
feels and operates
• Actions taken should never be shortsighted
• Should provide constructive criticism, rather than
simply shooting down ideas

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The People You Hire
• Behaviour and interaction of co-workers among themselves alters the
ambience of an organization
• When the team gets to know each other at a personal level, they
begin to understand each other’s personal strengths, passions and
areas of improvements

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Work Environment
• Surroundings have an impact on performance at work
• Office interior designs, space, ambience affects work
quality and employee morale
• A work setting matters nearly as much as the work itself

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The Work You Do
An efficient employee must:
• Be a right fit to the organization
• Should enhance their skill set and grow in their career
• Always seeks trainings and promising opportunities for promotions

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Clients/Customers
Any organization must:
• Acquire traits of their clients which has led them to the glory they are
enjoying
• Determine their ideal customer by asking who they are and what they
care about
• Make a shift in the marketing business strategy, which changes the
organization’s culture over time

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Human Approach
• Treat others with respect and kindness
• Everything you do at work is open to scrutiny
• Companies keeping organization culture a priority are reaping the
benefits

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Conclusion
• Contributes to unique social and psychological environment of an
organization
• Distinguishes an organization from other organization
• Factors affecting organization culture should be continuously
scrutinized
• Kept on priority to enjoy the benefits in the long run

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Thank You

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