Organizational Culture

Question 1

3 factors that go into Organizational Culture/Behaviour

Answer 1

Beliefs- What employees deem to be true
Norms- What employees deem to be appropriate
Values- What employees deem to be good

Question 2

Strong VS Weak Culture

Answer 2

Strong- Consistent and widespread belief of what the company is
Weak- Culture is not widespread and is inconsistent

Question 3

Assets of a strong culture

Answer 3

People are on the same page
More financial success
Better conflict resolution

Question 4

Libilities to a strong culture

Answer 4

Resistant to change
Pathology- Can be bad strong culture (Strong does not = good)
Culture clash- Difficult to merge two strong cultures

Question 5

Who contributes to Organization Culture

Answer 5

Emergent Leaders- Not formal leaders, but are respected.
Managers- Behaviour that managers focus on gets repeated
Founder/CEO- Organizations culture often reflects the leaders wor ethic/behavior