Organizational Culture Research Paper

Abstract

This article is on defining and explaining organizational culture and its types and the function of culture in organization. This article is prepared through various researches on different articles and books. The main objective of this article is to express proper concept on organizational culture and changes taking place in organization culture. After various researches on articles and books, it is found that organization cultures have a strong effect on the variety of organization process, employees and its performance. This article determines the nature of culture which is taking place in organization and the relation between managers and leaders with their employees. Organizational culture

Intoduction

“In any organization, there are the ropes to skip and the ropes to know.”

- R. Ritti and G. Frank Louser

Organizational Culture is a very complex concept. It is the set of shared beliefs, values, and norms that influence the way members think, feel and behave. Organization and managers motivate the employees, which leads to learn about the norms, values and objectives of the organization to know about the culture of organization. Proper culture in organization directs towards the improvement in objectives of organization. As for organizational development, employee’s performance is to be considered as a backbone for the organization. So for the welfare of employees’ performance the culture must be the important factor. There should be a good relationship between the employees and the managers. Management/Leaders should always try to learn the environment of the organization. According to (Sims, 2006)

Organizational culture it is one type of pattern having shared assumptions, values and

These elements are some of the manifestations of organizational culture.”

There are various other authors and experts who have defined organizational culture in their own way. But in a simple way organizational culture is a term in which an employee is bound with culture of organization having certain values, norms, and beliefs. There are certain characteristics of organizational culture some of them are as follows:

1. Behavioral Regularities: When people are in organization they will interfere with each other in a common language, having same rituals. There way of language using will be different in organization then outside of organization.

2. Norms: There are certain norms in organization explaining how much work they should do in organization and are nominated to do a particular work to perform.

3. Dominant Values: Organizations advocate some major values and expect the same to be imbibed by its organizational participants. A few examples of such popular values are high product quality, regularity, and