Organizational Cultures

Topics

• Introduction: Define Culture • Societal Culture• Central Features of Organizational Culture• Developing a culture of Learning in South

Africa• Leadership and Culture• Limitation of Organizational Culture • Conclusion: People and Culture

Topic 1:Introducation:Define Culture

Main points to be discuss under this topic • Culture and its Roots• Culture: its definition

Example of the Culture• Organizational Culture (Corporate Culture)• Define Organizational Culture

Example of the Organizational Culture • Academic Culture

Example of the Academic Culture• Questions and Answers (Discussion Session)

Culture: ItsRoots

•The word “Culture” comes from the Latin term cultura or cultus, such as agriculture.

Culture :its defined

“as a learned meaning system that consists of patterns of traditions, beliefs, values, norms, meanings and symbols (thump up). shared to varying degrees by interacting members of the community”

Example of Culture

• Lahori Culture (Culture of Lahore)

i.e. Respect the Elder, Eating at Night Time, Break Fast from the hotel etc. • Afgan Culture ???• Tribal Culture ???

Organization Culture(Corporate Culture )

•attitude •experiences•beliefs and •values

Define: Organizational Culture

“the Specific collection of values and norms that are shared by people and groups in an organization and that control the way they interact with each other and with the stake holder outside the organization.”

Example of Organizational Culture

Pakistan Army (Military Culture) i.e.,

• Annual Dinner • Sports Gala (Example of Sub-Culture/(Sports

Culture) )• Fun Programmers • Prize Distribution • Guest Lecture etc

Culture in Educational Organization(Academic Culture )

• School/Collage Side:Aitchison College, LahoreDebating ,Annual Diner etc

• University (Higher Education)1. Government College University, Lahore

(Ravian)2. LUMS

Example of Class Culture (Micro/Sub Culture )

• ELM 14(Educationist Leadership and Management)Norms: Be Respects to All Believe: Cooperative Learning StyleValue: High Morale

• YES(Young Economist Society)Departmental newsletter (Al Iqstad)

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Topic 2:Societal Culture

Main points to be discuss under this topic • Definition: Societal Culture and its Model • 7 Dimension of Societal culture • Questions and Answers (Discussion Session)

Topic 2 : Societal Culture

• The concept of societal culture is one that is multi-layered into subcultures such as community and school culture. This definition best captures how and why people think and act the way they do when dealing with changes such as the implementation of appraisal

Model of Societal Culture

Dimension of the Societal Culture

• Power-distributed / Power-concentrated • Group-oriented / Self-oriented • Consideration / Aggression• Proactivism / Fatalism • Generative / Replicative • Limited Relationship / Holistic Relationship • Male influence / female influence

Power-distributed / Power-concentrated

• Power as either being distributed more equally among the various levels of a culture • Low power distributed (Power

concentrated) value, is being more concentrated among relatively few.

Group-oriented / Self-oriented

• In group-oriented cultures, the people believe on collectivist values include harmony and equality of reward distribution among group.

• People within a given culture tend to focus on themselves or on their place within a group this phenomena is called Self oriented cultures.

Consideration / Aggression

• In consideration societies, the emphasis is on relationship, solidarity and resolution of conflict by compromise and negotiation.

• In aggressive cultures, the achievement is stressed, competition dominates and conflict is resolved through the exercise of power and assertiveness

Proactivism / Fatalism

• In Proactisism, We can change things around here attitude in some cultures and the willingness to accept things as they are

• In fatalistic perspective, the dimension addresses how different societies and cultures react to, and manage uncertainty and change in social different societies conditions.

Generative / Replicative

• In generative cultures, people tend to value the generation of knowledge, new ideas and ways of working and they seek to create solutions to problems, to develop policies and ways of operating which are original.

• In replicative cultures, people are more likely to adopt innovations, ideas and inventions developed elsewhere.

Limited Relationship / Holistic Relationship

• In limited relationship cultures, interactions and relationships tend to be determined by rules that are applied equally to everyone.

• In holistic cultures, dealings in formal and structured situations are driven more by complex personal considerations than by the specific situation or by formal rules and regulation.

Male influence / Female influence

• In Male influence societies, there is the perpetuation of male domination of decision-making in political, economic and professional life.

• In Female influence societies, there is the perpetuation of female domination of decision-making in political, economic and professional life.

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Topic 3 : Central Features of Organizational Culture

Main points to be discuss under this topic • Central Features of the Organizational

Features• Questions and Answers (Discussion Session)

Central features of the Organization Culture

• Value and Believe on members• Share norms and meanings• Rituals and Ceremonies• Existence of Hero and Heroines

Mode of school Culture

Conceptually behaviorally

visually

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Topic 4 : Developing a Culture of Leading in South Africa

Main points to be discuss under this topic • Dimension of South African Culture

• Questions and Answers (Discussion Session)

Dimension of South African Culture

• Spirituality :(religion) life is views as vitality• Harmony :(agreements) interdependent • Movement :rhythm • Verve:(energy)high level of stimulation• Affect:(involve) emotions and feeling • Communalism:(collectivism) social connectedness• Expressive individualism: Personal experience• Oral Tradition: Not written tradition • Social Time Perspective: Time as social

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Topic 5:Leadership and culture

Main points to be discuss under this topic • Culture???• Leadership???• Culture and Leadership • Questions and Answers (Discussion Session)

Culture ???

• Culture is the social glue.• Culture provides boundary-defining roles.• Culture conveys a sense of identity for organization members.• It serves as a “sense-making” and control mechanism that guides and shapes the attitudes and behavior of employees.

Leadership

• Culture of an organization is the central thesis of organizational strategy and implementation.• To ensure successful Strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation/measurement, need Strategic leadership• Leadership runs like a thread through all functions of management to integrate them into a cultural of excellence.• Understanding culture is desirable for all but is a must for leaders

Conclusion

Any leader to have a cultural awareness in formulation, exaction and evaluation of strategy process for any organization irrespective of their purpose of existence. Ultimately it is leaders ability to strike the right balance between Strategy, leadership and culture to realize organizational effectiveness.

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Topic :6 Limitations of Organizational Culture

Main points to be discuss under this topic • Three(3) weakness • Questions and Answers (Discussion Session)

Weakness of Culture Organization

• 1.imposition of the leaders’ on other members of the organization

• 2.Culture may be unduly mechanistic assuming that leader

• 3.Symbol may be misrepresesent

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Topic :7 Conclusion: People and Culture

Main points to be discuss under this topic • What you understand ???• Questions and Answers (Discussion Session)

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