Organizational Culture Case Study

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What is culture?? In simple term “culture” is derived from the word cultivation, which means to grow in agricultural sense. However, the use of word culture has varied during historical times and been used for to describe the intellectual side of civilization with the figurative sense of cultivation through education. It is now used to describe the range of activities and ideas of a group of people with shared traditions, which are transmitted and reinforced by members of the group. In a boarder sense culture could be defined as cumulative heritage of beliefs, values, attitudes, norms, experience, material objects and possessions acquired by participants of group of people in a course of generations through ones individual and group striving.…show more content…
Organizational culture has received much of attention since past three decades because of its potential impact on organizational success. In the current management literature on organizational culture (for culture is widely understood as an instrument used by management to shape and control in some way the belief, understandings, and behaviors of individuals, and thus the organization to reach specified goals. Therefore, a number of definitions for any organizational culture have been proposed (for example, Kilman et al, 1985; Uttal, 1983). Many studies have been conducted about the impact of organizational culture on different variables in the organizational setting. In such research, for example, the impact of organizational culture on job satisfaction (Lund, 2003), individual learning (Aksu and Ozdemir, 2005), organizational effectiveness (Denison, 1990; Denison…show more content…
Consequently, several researches have been conducted to identify the nature and type of corporate culture in organizations. The purpose was to elicit the key values, beliefs, and norms in an organization that has given much impetus to the success and superior performance of the organization. Kotter and Heskett (1992), for example, believe that culture has a long-term impact on the performance of the organization. Denison (1990) found that certain types of culture could enhance organizational performance, while Van der Post et al. (1998) found significant relationships between organizational culture and performance. It is also believed that organization culture is related to organizational
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