Introduction
Company’s management structure is highly influenced by over all corporate culture. Company’s management structure is the surface layer of corporate culture in other words that is the visible expressions of corporate culture .Culture shows up in both visible and invisible ways. Some expressions of corporate culture are easy to observe. You can see dress code, work environment, benefits, titles and job descriptions and management structure. These are the visible expressions or the surface layer of corporate culture.
To understand the relationship of the management structure and corporate culture and how these affect to the overall performance of the company it is advisable to study and discuss corporate culture and management structure.
What is corporate culture?
The easiest way to think of corporate culture is that it is an energy field that determines how people think, acts, and views the world around them. I often compare culture to electricity. Culture is powerful and invisible and its effects are far reaching. Culture is an energy force that becomes woven through the thinking, behavior, and identity of those within the group.
Corporate culture is created naturally and automatically. Every time people come together with a shared purpose, culture is created. This group of people could be a family, neighborhood, project team, or company. Culture is automatically created out of the combined thoughts, energies, and attitudes of the people in the group.
I have worked with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists involved in the start-up of technology companies. They want to work on the corporate culture once the company is profitable or "in the black". It is much more difficult to change the corporate culture once it has emerged than to proactively create the corporate culture they want from the start.
The corporate culture energy field