Measuring Organizational Culture

Measuring Organizational Culture

Introduction

The purpose of any organization is to be competitive in the market thus it is necessary to consider the different variables that can intervene in the competitive development of the company among other important factors, organizational culture is one of the most important factor that has huge impact on the outcomes and competitive development of an organization. Organizational culture includes actions, systems, behaviors, values, and beliefs that are hard to change (Harrison, 1999). Culture is a determining factor for the performance of a group of people; this is defined as the set of values, beliefs, climate, norms, symbols and traditional philosophies in an organization. Values are principles or qualities considered by the members of an organization such as customer service, innovation among others. As beliefs are scenarios, are considerations of business model in the organization which can be true or false. On the other hand climate is understood as the atmosphere or feeling within the environment organization that is visible in the physical part of the place, as employees work, among others. The standards are the standards or rules that involve the organization and talks as workers should behave. The symbols are the icons, rituals and traditions essentially involving the company for such ceremonies performed annually. Finally philosophy, which are established policies and ideologies that guide organizational actions.

Research states that 70% employees fail because of working in a culture that is totally different or not fit for them. Therefore it is re commended to change the culture by measuring it to make a real and substantial difference in the organization. For an organization to remain competitive in the organization it has to have effective culture aligned with values and beliefs of its employee. This alignment can be measured through various measurement methods. Thus In this paper we are going to discuss various methods or processes of measuring organizational culture. Meta-analysis table shall be generated to clearly identify best and effective method of measuring organizational culture which would be recommended to the CEO and other executives of the client organization to measure their organizational culture. The purpose of this paper is to let researchers know about the effective methods or processes available for measurement of organizational culture and how these methods help organizations in knowing and maintaining strength of their culture.

Today in our organizational culture one of the biggest challenges of to measure the effectiveness and strengths of organizational culture. Over past many years organizations have been using various methods to uncover truth about their culture. It is pretty hard to define organizational culture. But still there are various methods to measure the effectiveness of organizational culture (Helfrich, 2007). In general, there are two key methods of measuring organizational. First is the archival method that use historical data such as turnover, retention, productivity records, absenteeism, customer relations, etc. second method used to gather information and measure organizational culture is through surveys, these survey can be open ended (qualitative), numerical (Quantitative), or sometimes combination of ...