MGT 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 93: Organizational Culture, Adhocracy
7 Dec 2020
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Organizations have organizational culture that govern how its members behave. Things that are included in organizational culture are: Every organization has cultures that influence the members of the organizations attitudes and behaviors. Organizational culture is a system of shared meaning that members hold, distinguishing the organization from other organizations. There are six primary characteristics that capture the culture of an organization: adaptability: This is the degree that employees are encouraged to be more flexible and innovative. This is also the degree that employees are encouraged to take risks and experiment more: detail orientation: This is the degree that employees are expected to show things, like, precision, analysis, and attention to detail: results/outcome orientation: This is the degree that management focuses on outcomes and results instead of techniques and processes used along the way to accomplish those outcomes and results: people/customer orientation:
