In six words, corporate culture is "How we do things around here."
Corporate culture is the collective behavior of people using common corporate vision, goals, shared values, beliefs, habits, working language, systems, and symbols. It is interwoven with processes, technologies, learning and significant events. In addition, different individuals bring to the workplace their own uniqueness, knowledge, and ethnic culture. So corporate culture encompasses moral, social, and behavioral norms of your organization based on the values, beliefs, attitudes, and priorities of its members.
Corporate culture can be transformed, but leadership to sustain anything that sweeping has to come from "the top."
Adaptive Cultures
Your corporate culture is good only if it fits its context, i.e. your business space and your business strategy. In today's rapidly changing economy, "only cultures that can help organizations anticipate and adapt to environmental change will be associated with superior performance over the long time."8 Research findings10 show that cultures that are externally oriented (e.g. risk taking, readiness to meet new challenges) tend to be more strongly associated with organizational performance (operationalized using a range of measures) than do those cultures which are bureaucratic and predominantly internally focused.
Corporate Culture: The Three Levels
The three levels of a corporate culture are
1. Surface Level: At this level, culture is both enacted and reinforced through visible appearances and behaviors, such as physical layouts, dress codes, organizational structure, company policies, procedures and programs, and attitudes.
2. Middle Level: Here, culture is manifested through our beliefs and values.
3. Deepest Level: At this level, culture is manifested through basic assumptions – our long-learned, automatic responses and established opinions.
By Priti Shah
Laurent & Benon Management Consultants Ltd, a public limited company with its corporate office Gurgaon with Pan-India presence. We as an organization strive to offer the right Human Resource Solutions at the right time and enable our clients to enhance the net worth of their human resource capital.
For further Information please Visit us at: http://www.laurentandbenon.co.in/
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From India, Pune
Corporate culture is the collective behavior of people using common corporate vision, goals, shared values, beliefs, habits, working language, systems, and symbols. It is interwoven with processes, technologies, learning and significant events. In addition, different individuals bring to the workplace their own uniqueness, knowledge, and ethnic culture. So corporate culture encompasses moral, social, and behavioral norms of your organization based on the values, beliefs, attitudes, and priorities of its members.
Corporate culture can be transformed, but leadership to sustain anything that sweeping has to come from "the top."
Adaptive Cultures
Your corporate culture is good only if it fits its context, i.e. your business space and your business strategy. In today's rapidly changing economy, "only cultures that can help organizations anticipate and adapt to environmental change will be associated with superior performance over the long time."8 Research findings10 show that cultures that are externally oriented (e.g. risk taking, readiness to meet new challenges) tend to be more strongly associated with organizational performance (operationalized using a range of measures) than do those cultures which are bureaucratic and predominantly internally focused.
Corporate Culture: The Three Levels
The three levels of a corporate culture are
1. Surface Level: At this level, culture is both enacted and reinforced through visible appearances and behaviors, such as physical layouts, dress codes, organizational structure, company policies, procedures and programs, and attitudes.
2. Middle Level: Here, culture is manifested through our beliefs and values.
3. Deepest Level: At this level, culture is manifested through basic assumptions – our long-learned, automatic responses and established opinions.
By Priti Shah
Laurent & Benon Management Consultants Ltd, a public limited company with its corporate office Gurgaon with Pan-India presence. We as an organization strive to offer the right Human Resource Solutions at the right time and enable our clients to enhance the net worth of their human resource capital.
For further Information please Visit us at: http://www.laurentandbenon.co.in/
Visit Blog at: http://laurentandbenon.blogspot.com/
From India, Pune
Good blog you have got, Priti. I will get back to it after reading the details. I read something on your blog about employee engagement. I feel strongly that that should be a part of corporate culture in all Industries. What is employee engagement or finding one's vocation in life from the individual point of view is actually Talent Management from the corporate point of view. In case you are interested my blog is Make your passion your profession(Work prisoners and students) which has 20 published articles written in the Times of India and four other magazines. Unfortunately, employee engagement is not a part of the corporate culture the way it is in the west.
From India, New Delhi
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