Definition of Organizational Culture
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, on Jun. 2009
It refers to the terms culture organizational to the experiences, beliefs and values, both those that concern each person and the cultural ones, of a certain organization.
The values that are defined, proposed, promoted and respected within an organization are actually the beliefs and ideas about the type of objectives and the most appropriate way in which they should be achieved. All these values also constitute and stand as a kind of manual or guide when moving within a certain organization, since they determine the most appropriate behaviors to be observed by the workers of an organization in a particular situation and also with regard to the relationship e interaction that should be among them as members of the same in order to contribute to its development and growth and not to its destruction or deterioration in the worst case scenario.
Although the top executives or top managers of an organization may decide arbitrarily, due to the power they wield, the culture organizational level of the organization they lead, it will not be a simple, easy or standard task at all, since it will not weigh only the particular history of the organization they lead, but also the decisions that have been made in this regard will weigh heavily. proposed e
tax in the past and that of course they are still rooted in it.Mainly, the organizational culture of an organization is characterized by its character symbolic, this implies that it will be intangible and impossible to touch for any of its members, however, its manifestations, that is, the behaviors if they are tangible, observable, then these will allow us to observe it, describe it, among others issues.
And returning to the symbolic is because a series of traditions and symbols are what will guide and modulate the behavior of those who have been working long and hard in it and also of those who have just joined it and in the special case of the latter, the observation of those with long trajectory it will be a bit that will tell them how to act and respond to certain situations that arise shortly after integrating it.
All these symbolic elements appear and occur at any and all levels of an organization, that is, from the highest to the highest levels. levels considered lower and it will be these that will mark the identifications with certain groups and subgroups, as well as the inclusions and exclusions.
Obviously the organizational culture of an organization will directly affect each of its members, especially with regard to the selection and attraction towards it, this means that the greater the identification of a member of the same with the culture that is imposed and promoted in it, the lower the turnover rate or abandonment that will be given.
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