Organizational Culture

What is Organization?

•A social unit  of people, systematically structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals on a continuing basis.

•All organizations have a management structure that determines relationships between functions and positions, and subdivides and delegates roles, responsibilities, and authority to carry out defined tasks.

•Organizations are open systems in that they affect and are affected by the environment beyond their boundaries.

What is culture?

•Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, cuisine

Music

Arts

Religion

Social Habits

   

What is Organizational Culture?

•The values and assumptions shared within an organization.

•Organization's past and current assumptions, experiences, philosophy, and values that hold it together, and is expressed in its self-image, inner workings, interactions with the outside world and future expectations.

•Directs everyone toward the right path of doing things.

•Defines what is good and bad, right and wrong. 

DNA which is invisible to the naked eye, yet a powerful template  that shapes what happens in the workplace.