ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

Evaluating Organizational Environments

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Evaluating Organizational Environments

Introduction

Organizational culture can be referred to as the personality of the organization; it comprises of norms, values, behavior of employees, artifacts in and organization and may other variable. When all these elements are combined, they develop an environment where employees develop their behavior and attitude that fits into the developed organizational structure. It is difficult to define culture clearly, but it is commonly observable in a particular environment. For example, the culture of a large organization involved in generating revenues, cannot be same as that of a hospital or a university. People attitude defines the organizational culture in an organization, and the management makes sure that these practices are in accordance with overall company objectives.

Culture within an organization can be anything; it may be from wearing ties to furniture arrangement etc. You can tell just my observing your environment, surrounding and employee behavior. Two most important elements in identifying organizational culture are the mission and vision of the origination. Vision statement identifies the future prospects of an organization, where it wants to be in the future, and the mission statement defines the process and procedures required to achieve that vision. In this paper, we will discuss the same concept and try to evaluate organizational culture, define tools to assess this culture and differentiate the culture of to two different organizations. We will briefly discuss the types of organizational culture and try to relate it to our study of two organizations.

Academy Culture

An organization enriched with skilled and loyal employees, who are motivated enough to make their way to the top by their efforts and hard work. Such an organization is said to have an academic culture. These organizations provide a consistently working environment to their employee that allows them to grow their potential, skills and capabilities. Examples of originations that practice an academic culture include large corporations, hospitals and universities, etc.

Baseball Team Culture

An organization where employees are highly skilled and they are adequately paid for such skills can be termed as baseball team culture. There is abundant demand for the skills of such employees, and they can get a job elsewhere. This culture is normally observable in high risk and fast paced organizations like banking investments and advertising agencies, etc.

Club Culture

The most common problem with employees in a club culture organizational environment is to fit in a group. Normally employees start at the low level and stay in the organization. There is huge communication gap between the gap between the top management and employees at lower levels. The flow of communication is normally downward through the structured hierarchy. There is a noticeable difference is values of seniors and juniors in the organization. Such culture can be found in military associations and law firms.

Fortress Culture

In such organizational culture employees are unaware whether they will be laid off or not. These organizations undergo an extensive reorganization and according to the requirements of the organizations employees rotated or lay ...