How Can Culture Influence An Organization's Culture?

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Every individual has his/her beliefs that interpret into personal values which, expressed collectively, shape an organization’s culture (Haines, 2000). Culture plays an important role in every firm as, self-evidently, each firm has its own culture (Mohe, 2008). Despite the great attention received by Organizational Culture (OC), there has no universal agreed upon definition for the construct (Lewis, 2002). Most of the definitions provided for the construct indicated that it is the shared system of values, beliefs, and attitudes that are common among the organizational individuals and influence their judgments (O’Reilly & Chatman, 1996; Mckinnon et al., 2003). Different organizations have their own distinctive cultures. Through tradition, history and structure, organizations build up their own culture. Culture shapes employee’s attitudes, values, motivation, and performance (Lather, Puskas, Singh & Gupta, 2010). Culture works as lens through which employees see organizational expectations and obligations. Organizational culture affects company’s financial performance (Kotter & Heskett, 1992) and also is critical in attracting and retaining talent, change management, creating energy and momentum, engaging employees, creating synergy between work behavior and organizational goal (Eikenberry, 2010). …show more content…

Organizations such as Infosys, Wipro, Tata Steel etc. are successful and growing which can also be attributed to the tremendous impact of OCTAPACE culture (Academy of Human Resources Development, 2009). Empirical studies indicated that the culture of OCTAPACE values is imbibed in the culture of the many organizations to a good or moderate degree (Alphonsa, 2000; Kumar & Patnaik, 2002; Bhardwaj & Mishra,

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