Organisational Behaviour - Culture

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Organisational Behaviour - Culture The aim of this paper is to examine the role culture plays in an organisation. We would be looking at what influences organisational culture play in shaping the culture of an organisation, how cultural role modelling by leaders may influence the creation and development of an organisations culture and showing how the understanding of culture helps us to understand more about the life and people that work in the organisation, this would also be explored. This paper will focus on the impact culture has on an organisation because for any organisation to thrive successfully, they would need to be able to understand the importance of culture and how it affects productivity and learning at all levels. When an organisation is created it becomes its own entity and its culture becomes the foundation on which the organisation will exist. Every organisation has its own unique culture, though they might not have consciously created it; but it came to be through the values of the management or the founders. Over time, leaders try to change the culture of their organisation to fit their own preferences or changing political climate but this might be very difficult to achieve in view of the fact that people’s actions are largely influenced by the process of the culture to which they belong. WHAT IS CULTURE Culture can be defined in a national term “collective mental programming” (Hofstede, 1980), a business term “the way we do things around here” (Deal & Kennedy, 1982), “ A pattern of basic assumptions, invented, discovered, or developed by a given group, as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be considered valid, and therefore is to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems” (Schein’s 1990), “ Social

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