Organizational Culture: Kazakhstan Temir Zholy

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Organizational culture of the National Company “Kazakhstan temir zholy” (KTZ)
Organizational culture is a very important aspect of management practice. According to Rick (2015), “Organizational culture is the sum of values and rituals which serve as “glue” to integrate the members of the organization”. Any organizational culture despite the size of a company must complete the following functions:
• Distinctive recognized company image formation
• Development of a sense of community, achieving cohesion among all employees, employers
• Enhancing social stability in the organization
• Inducing the involvement of workers in the affairs of the organization, ensure commitment and devotion to the organization
• Formation and control of patterns of …show more content…

Hence those who are enlisted in the talents pool do feel confident that they are highly appreciated by top managers, hence their sense of space is fulfilled. Despite the fact that KTZ is formal and reserved organization, talents pool employees are rewarded and their achievements are announced internally in order to motivate the others. Another category of new organizational culture of KTZ includes the term “Employee development” defined by Harris and Moran (1996). Adaptation of a new personnel to KTZ corporate culture is not an easy process. In order to simplify induction and adaptation process, adaptation sessions with KTZ mentors are held, for example, according to KTZ’s HR activities report for 2013, around 300 workshops were held for newcomers. Ceremonial rites of passage, integration, and enhancement do exist at KTZ. For example, Dauren (team member and KTZ employee) says that a newly hired person must give a banquet to his new colleagues, particularly meat dishes are preferred rather than just cakes (maybe due to our Kazakh national love to meat), all alcoholic drinks are not allowed inside the KTZ building, but “veterans” tend to require vodka during banquet. If consider Hofstede’s model, it can be said that there are strong signs of collectivism, however, due to new business transformation strategy, extrinsic incentives are offered to encourage

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