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How a manager and their team succeed and perform at their best is when their purpose and their organizational culture connects with who they are.
Discuss the importance of an organization’s mission, vision, values, and strategies. How should these elements shape the organizational culture and develop culture for change? Support your response with a specific example to illustrate your explanation.
Define and examine organizational culture. Identify and thoroughly explain the four levels of organizational culture. What is the value of organizational culture? Examine how it is created and maintained?
Define and examine organizational culture. Identify and thoroughly explain the four levels of organizational culture. What is the value of organizational culture? Examine how it is created and maintained?
Organizational culture is the shared understanding within an organization regarding the norms, values, and taken-for-granted beliefs the define an organization. The text discusses four general types of organizational culture (see Figure 16-2) and the self-assessment helps you identify your own preferred organizational culture. None of these cultures is more effective than another in all circumstances, but some may help the organization attract the employees it needs and help the organization fit its specific competitive environment better than others.
What type of organizational culture does your current (or most recent) employing organization have? Is this the right culture for your organization, or would you suggest a different type? Is this the right organizational culture for you?
Using what you read from Schein’s text for this period, present to the group the process a senior leader or leadership team would use to create a new culture between two organizations in the same industry but each from a dissimilar country — say Nigeria and USA, or Peru and Norway, or South Korea and France. What role will ethics play in creating a new culture? Show your understanding of culture and ethical leadership in this forum.
What are the components of an organizational culture?
Question 2
How does an organization’s culture affect the behavior of employees?