Organizational Culture Assessment Paper

Lexington School District One is a large organization with thirty-three schools, an Information Technology office, Student Services, Food Services, Communications, Maintenance and many more departments. In this assignment, the Accounting office of Fiscal Services will be analyzed as a Hierarchy organizational type, as mentioned in the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (Jennifer Bellot, 2011), the core cultural elements of artifacts, values, and assumptions, and how the culture impacts the behavior of the organization through the ideologies of the beliefs of how things work, the values showing that professionalism is worth having, and the norms of the behavior of the employees within the office (UMUC, n.d.).
Artifacts, values,
and Assumptions
Culture is “one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language” (Heath, n.d.). Culture is how an organization do things. Culture characterizes the collective beliefs of traditions, ethical understandings, and practices of a group or the organization as a whole (Unknown, n.d.). However, the core culture values are assumptions, values, and artifacts. Organizational culture is the basic assumptions that are behind the values that determine the groups behavior patterns and artifacts (Jennifer Bellot, 2011).
Within Lexington School District One’s Accounting office, the culture is set high regarding the value element. Value can be described as how things are done (UMUC, 2017). The expectations of one’s culture. It is the belief of this culture to be professional in all aspects while providing the employees, as well as the public, with information, conducting business, and keeping a high standard of oneself when away from work. After all, the employees represent the district, whether at work, away from work on personal time, and even social media.