Topic: Organizational culture is fundamentally about symbolic meaning and as such cannot be managed. Discuss.
Topic: Organizational culture is fundamentally about symbolic meaning and as such cannot be managed. Discuss.
Since the last decade the concept of culture has been used by some organizational researchers and managers in order to show the overall environment and ongoing practices which are made by the organizations in order to handle people or to maintain the values of the organization. Organizational culture means that the ways in which people in organizations are linked through shared values, beliefs and behaviours (Grey, 2012, lecture 6). The culture of an organizations shows the image of an organization and it can be used to attract and motivate the staff of the organization, culture also affects the performance of the organization and tells the workers that how they have to work (Ann cunliffe, 2008 cited in Bunchanan and huczynski, 2010). Culture is consist of the values which managers of the business want to introduce into the organization. It is through culture that rituals, climate, values behaviour are bound together in one thing (Schein, 1992). Culture of an organization shows the overall environment of the business. It reflects the personality of the organization and through culture it can be seen that how day to day activities takes place in an organization, how the employees in the organization do their work and relate with each other. Culture has no physical appearance as it is intangible so the culture of the organization can be analyzed through symbols such as logos, slogans, and names. These all can communicate culture to the employees of the business and to those who are sitting outside the organization. Dress code, physical appearance, buildings all reflect he organizational culture. Cultures in an organization are developed by the leadership of the business. Leaders in an organization create and manage culture and through their talent and skills they work it in those organizations and make other people in organization to follow the culture,
Since the last decade the concept of culture has been used by some organizational researchers and managers in order to show the overall environment and ongoing practices which are made by the organizations in order to handle people or to maintain the values of the organization. Organizational culture means that the ways in which people in organizations are linked through shared values, beliefs and behaviours (Grey, 2012, lecture 6). The culture of an organizations shows the image of an organization and it can be used to attract and motivate the staff of the organization, culture also affects the performance of the organization and tells the workers that how they have to work (Ann cunliffe, 2008 cited in Bunchanan and huczynski, 2010). Culture is consist of the values which managers of the business want to introduce into the organization. It is through culture that rituals, climate, values behaviour are bound together in one thing (Schein, 1992). Culture of an organization shows the overall environment of the business. It reflects the personality of the organization and through culture it can be seen that how day to day activities takes place in an organization, how the employees in the organization do their work and relate with each other. Culture has no physical appearance as it is intangible so the culture of the organization can be analyzed through symbols such as logos, slogans, and names. These all can communicate culture to the employees of the business and to those who are sitting outside the organization. Dress code, physical appearance, buildings all reflect he organizational culture. Cultures in an organization are developed by the leadership of the business. Leaders in an organization create and manage culture and through their talent and skills they work it in those organizations and make other people in organization to follow the culture,