Organizational Culture Research Paper

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CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION Organizational culture is the most discussed topic in the modern days in behavioural science and found the interest of topic since Pettigrew, who gave it an anthropological perspective. Schein had connected culture with leadership in management functions. Culture exists in many levels, including national culture and organizational culture. Social culture contributes in terms of values, norms and beliefs, while organizational culture with broad minded contributes in different levels such as values, rules and practices. Culture in organization reflects in its employee’s behaviour whereby organizational culture becomes an integral part of the functioning of organizations. 1.1 Concepts and Definitions of Organizational Culture…show more content…
Organizational culture is generally accepted to be a holistic and multidimensional concept that is historically determined and socially constructed (Sanders, 1990). Tyrrell (2000) states that organizational culture is originated through the constant interactions of human being, as it is an emergent property. The right or wrong behaviour in the organization is found through the values and beliefs that emerge from ongoing negotiation among group members as a source of reference for what is deemed to be acceptable or unacceptable in an organization (Kusluvan & Karamustafa, 2003). Culture to be measured focused on the employee perceptions of where they work since employees’ attitudes and behaviour are determined by their perceptions (Rentsch,…show more content…
(1990). Pettigrew in his article defined culture as a “system of publicly and collectively accepted meanings operating for a given group at a given time” and introduced the anthropological concept of culture as well as showing how the related concepts of symbolism, myth, ritual and others can be used in organizational analysis. Pettigrew viewed organizational culture as a family of concepts, which includes symbol, language, ideology, belief, ritual, and myth; he stresses the significance of symbols and language in the study of culture. Pettigrew (1979) explains that culture, through making use of symbols and language, becomes the force behind all human action. While, rituals create distinctiveness and exclusiveness, whereas myths maintain what is legitimate and what is not
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