A few days ago
Jess

what is the best way to describe Organizational Culture?

I need to examine the role and responsibilities of leaders in creating and maintaining a healthy organizational culture and I am having a hard time understanding what organizational culture actually is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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A few days ago
wisdomdude

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Start with the definition of culture in the context of the business world:

from http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/culture

the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization.

Now you need to figure out, subjectively, what is “healthy” relative to an organization’s culture.

This sounds like a good comparison/contrast exercise.

Take some organizations you admire, and some you dislike strongly. Now compare and contrast their leaders and the organizational culture…and see what the role of the leaders were in both types of organizations to the way the organizations work, and how the general public and the employees perceive those organizations.

I hope this helps…good luck in your studies.

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5 years ago
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I have no idea. Compare Amish Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Salt Lake City, or Brattleboro, Vermont, and Topeka, Kansas. Which one of these is indicative of “American culture”? They’re all wildly different. There is no American culture. I think the whole “apple pie” thing was always a myth.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
i just took this in my management class…organizational culture is the atmosphere in a workplace…like for example, in my workplace, we had a negative culture because our leader was not effective and so us workers were dissatisfied but that drove us to bond better and get closer…hope this helps
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