COMMERCE 1BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Psychological Contract, Job Performance, Organizational Identification
23 Mar 2018
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Informally, culture can be thought of as a organizations style, atmosphere, or personality. Organizational culture consists of the shared beliefs, values, and assumptions that exist in an organization. These determine the norms that develop and the patterns of behavior that emerge from these norms. It represents a true (cid:498)way of life(cid:499) for organizational members who often take its. Fairly stable over time and once established it can persist despite turnover influence for granted among organizational members, providing social continuity. A way to grasp a culture is to examine the symbols, rituals, and stories that. For insiders, symbols, rituals, and stories are mechanisms that teach, characterize the organizations way of life communicate, and reinforce the company"s culture. An organization can have several cultures that develop within a larger organizational culture that are based on differences in training, occupation, or departmental goals. Effective organizations develop an overarching culture to manage differences between subcultures values, and assumptions.
