Write a Proper Evaluation of How Your Organizational Culture Is Enhancing or Obstructing Strategy Implementation. Suggest Changes That Should Be Made to Culture to Enhance Performance.

Organisational culture is defined as the ways in which things are accomplished, a pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems (Schein 1992:12). In comparison to earlier times, organisational culture is more in demand and recognised at present (Schein, 1992) due to competition, increased globalisation, diversified workforce and formation of business coalitions. This in turn led to product and strategy innovation; integration among firm’s or industrial units to improve efficiency, quality, speed in manufacturing and distribution of services; introduction of new technologies; international transactions; facilitation of teamwork; and management of the diverse human resource (Collins and Porras, 1994).
Sharing of thoughts and experiences with others implies that organisational culture promotes a certain level of stability among the members of the firm’s or industry. Econet Wireless organisational culture basically encompasses the values, beliefs and ideas on what the firm’s or industry is all about, how its workforce should behave and how it defines itself in relation to its external environment. It is this firm’s reality that shapes its activities. The organisational culture is reflected in firm’s philosophies, rules, norms, values, climate, symbols, heroes, and almost everything its member do. ‘Culture is one of the most precious things a company has, so corporate culture strength refers to how widely and deeply employees hold the company’s dominant values and assumptions. Thus Econet’s employees across all submit, hold the dominant values that is, pioneering, professionalism and personal. These values are also institutionalized through well-established artifacts, thereby making it difficult for those values

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