ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE

GOPIKRISHNAN
S1 MBA

24-01-2011
ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE OR
CLIMATE

The climate or culture of an organisation is defined as

the common perception of its employees about a no. of
aspects of its internal working environment, such as
supervision, communication, decision-making control
etc.
ORIGINS OF ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE
Organizational culture has been partially tracked by
dynamic personalities with strong values and clear
vision as to take their organizations
Oc is influenced by the external environment and the
interaction between the organization and external
environment
Work culture is also a function of the nature of work as
well as the mission and goals of the organization
 Difference betwee Japanese and American
culture
The cultural aspect of organizational perfomance came
into focus with Theory Z, preposed by Willian Ouchi in
1981.
Ouchi’s approache are following
Consensus decision making
Worker participation in all phases of organization
approaches
Genuine concern for the overall well being of employees
Life time job security
American Culture

Term employment ,Layoffs are quite common.Lateral

job mobility is also common
Perfomance evaluation and promotion relatively fast.
Decision are generally carried out by individual
managers
 Japanese culture
Fairly long term,usually life term employment
Rigourous evaluation and slow promotion
People are familiar with all areas of operations
Collective decision making is the norm
Primary reliance is on implicit control .people rely heavily
on trust and good will
Organization is concerned with the whole life of
worker,business as well as personal and social.
Levels of organizational culture
According to Edgar schein o c has three levels;

Observable artifacts of culture

Shared values
Common assumptions
 COMPONENTS OF OC
SUPERVISION
MANGEMENT OF REWARD
COMMUNICATION
TRUST
DECISION-MAKING
PROBLEM MANAGEMENT
CONTROL
RISK TAKING
INNOVATION & CHANGE
CONFLICT
MANGENENT OF MISTAKES
INFORMAL GROUPS
DETERMINANTS OF OC
ECONOMIC CONDITION
LEADERSHIP STYLE
ORGANISATION POLICIES
MANAGERIAL ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT
HUMAN NATURE
EMPLOYEES CHARACTERISTICS
ORGANISATIONAL SIZE
TYPE OF OC
MECHANISTIC OC
ORGANIC OC
AUTHORITARIAN OC
PARTICIPATIVE OC
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CULTURE
ENTREPRENEURIAL OC
PATERNALISTIC OR FAMILIAL OC
ALTRUISTIC OC
HRD CULTURE OR CLIMATE
Culture which is specifically perceived as
conducive to the development of human resource
It is defined as the employee’s common
perception about the development environment of
their organisation.
There are 8 cultural values
OCTAPACE VALUES
OPENNESS
CONFRONTATION
TRUST
AUTONOMY
PROACTIVITY
AUTHENTICITY
COLLABORATION
EXPERIMENTATION
REFERENCE
PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
P.C.TRIPATHI
P.N.REDDY
M G university Principles of Management Refference
book
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