The Importance Of Organisational Culture

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According to Andrew Pettigrew (1979), culture is defined as a system of publicly and collective accepted meanings operating for the organisational members through shared meanings, beliefs, assumptions, understandings, norms, values and knowledge that make up the way of life within an organisation. Including this is just one of the widely used definitions of organisational culture. Among the multiple definitions, a common element is the concept of sharing indicating widespread consensus between organisational members. There have been numerous approaches directed at the organisation culture often employing different terminologies. This essay would emphasize on the analysis of different insights and issues related to management practice influenced…show more content…
It reveals that organisational performance and the strength of corporate culture are positively correlated. Strong corporate culture possessing high agreement of values results in good organisational performance and conversely. Kotter and Heskett challenge the widely belief that better performing organisations have strong corporate cultures, but only if the culture fits the organisation’s environment. Better performance do not necessarily sustained over long run unless the organisation’s culture adopt strategies and practices leading the organization to continuously respond to changing markets and new environments. Such cultures are characterized as over rationalistic management and frequently attributed to strong cultures binding employees to the organisation and boosting their commitments to it. Their purpose is to secure commitment of employees to corporate goals and values chosen and promoted by top management so as to enhance organisational performance. Although many employees and managers may in practice comply outwardly with such values, but inwardly remain skeptical, cynical or resistant to such initiatives. They may also engage in resistance such strikes and other disputes or micro emancipation such as jokes or…show more content…
Postmodernist normatively preferred to promote the benefit of relinquishing managerial control in favour of encouraging individual creativity and freedom, and licensing workplace democracy. Postmodernist focus attention on the phenomenon of being branded, how employees can effectively resist this new form of domination, and have hidden control over their organizational practices and cultural identities. They make sure of theories to suggest that the idea of shared understanding is an illusion and therefore so is organizational
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