ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

Organizational Culture

Organizational Culture

Introduction

The word culture represent different categories: at the level of ordinary consciousness - as a set of manners and customs, and among cultural studies and sociology, in accordance with the definition of culture as a specific way of organization and development of human life, represented in the product's material and spiritual work in the system social norms and institutions, spiritual values, in the aggregate people's attitudes to nature and each other and to ourselves. It was originally connected with a person and generated by the fact that he constantly strives to find meaning in their life and work and, conversely, no society or social group, or a person without culture, without culture. This same culture acts as a measure of implementation and development of human nature in its social activities as the measure of a man.

The purpose of this paper is to enlighten and explore the cultural barriers of an organization. This paper aims to explore the existence of cultural barriers in organizations and strives to recommend appropriate recommendations in order to cope with them. The internationalization of business and economics for all consequential benefits nonetheless become a global problem. In respect of existing organizations, this means the need to consider differences in national cultures. Business goes far beyond national boundaries, drawing into its orbit more and more people from different cultural outlook. As a result, of cultural differences begin to play an increasing role in organizations and stronger influence on the marginal efficiency of business activities. From this and, there are cross-cultural issues in international business - the contradictions at work in the new social and cultural conditions, due to differences in thinking patterns between groups of people.

Discussion and Analysis

This section will explore the cultural barriers in organizations and highlight the key barriers that hinder the process of organizational change. In addition, this section will recommend different strategies on the basis of executed analysis in order to facilitate the smooth business practices inside an organization.

Cultural Barriers in Organization

In international business, cultural environment factors create the greatest difficulty. That is why the correct assessment of differences in national cultures and an adequate allowance for them is becoming more and more important. Take into account the factors of the cultural environment also makes a complex and multi-level culture, which determines the diversity of its functions in the life of every society (Kline, 2005).

Cross-cultural aspect of the establishment of national wealth has recently become the object of attention in United States as a joint venture made up 40% of gross domestic product and activated the international transfer of technology, yet at the level of mentality of the nation continues to exist a stereotype in which the true culture (including business, economic) is only their own culture (Hoffman, Kamm, Frederick, Petry, 1994). In other words, there is a problem of cross-cultural assessment of confidence in international business development, the successful solution of which requires a new approach to language and cultural differences to achieve growth in material wealth and monetary and ...