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AKSHITA LUKHI
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ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE

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INTRODUCTION
DEFINITION
CHARACTERISTIC OF ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE
FUNCTION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
CREATING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
MAINTAINING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
TRANSMITTING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

INTRODUCTION
Every organization is a unique one. Even
organization that are involved in the same
activity or that provide similar products or
services are different from each other.

DEFINITION
JOHN NEWSTROM and KEITH DAVIS define
organizational Culture as the set of
assumptions, beliefs, values and norms that
are shared by an organizations members.

CHARACTERISTIC OF
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
At the root of any organizations culture is a
set of core characteristics that are valued by
members of an organization. The important
characteristic of organizational are :
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Innovation
Stability
People Orientation
Result Orientation
Easy Goingness
Attention
Team Orientation

FUNCTION OF
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Culture plays several important function in
organization.
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Sense of Identity
Commitment to the Organizations Mission
Appropriate Standards of Behavior
Barrier to Change
Barrier to Diversity
Barrier to Mergers and Acquisitions

TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE
Although organizations have their own
unique cultures, they may be classified into
one of the following four categories :
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Academy
Club
Baseball Team
Fortress

CREATING ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE
An organizations culture does not develop
overnight. A number of factors contribute to
the emergence of an organizational culture.
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Company Founders
Organizational Experience
Internal Interactions

MAINTAINING ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE
These are three major forces that play an important
role in maintaining organizational culture :
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Selection Practice
Action of Top Management
Socialization

TRANSMITTING ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE
Organizations transmit their culture to their
employees through different mechanism. Employees
lean about their organizations culture through
different forms. Some of the powerful means of
transmitting organizational culture are :
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Stories
Symbols
Jargon
Ceremonies
Statement of Principle
ICICI Bank
Birla Sun Life
General Insurance Corporation
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
HDFC Bank

EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE
Research studies have been carried out to study
the effect of organizational culture on
organizational performance, length of
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Organizational Performance
Length of Employment
Person-Organizational Fit

CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE
The culture of an organization may change due
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Change in the Composition of the Workforce

Mergers and Acquisitions
Planned Organizational Change