Organizational Culture: Culture, Cultures, And Values

Organizational Culture

Culture is a concept that we hear frequently. Nowadays everything is culture problem, for example water usage, citizen’s behavior, and of course at the organizations.

That is why we say that organizational culture is a set of perceptions, feelings, attitudes, habits, beliefs, values, traditions and forms of interaction within and between existing groups in all organizations. Is the specific collection of values and norms that are shared by people and groups in an organization that controls the way they interact with each other within the organization and with the outside, therefore the organizational culture is manifested when the organization do or perform their activities, the way that the organization treats its employees, customers and the community in general. Also on the autonomy and freedom levels allowed for decision making, the development of new ideas and personal expression. Also is evidenced on how management is exercised and how information flows through the organization chart, and especially the employee’s level of commitment to achieve collective goals.

Another definition would be the organizational values such as beliefs and ideas about the goals that the organization should pursue and ideas about the appropriate behavior standards that the organizational members should use to achieve these goals (Organization Mission and Vision). These organizational values will be based on norms, directives, guidelines and expectations to determine how employees should behave in particular situations inside and outside the organization.

The tradition and the prevailing conditions establish the culture of a company. This term implies the values of a company, such as aggressiveness, defensiveness, or sha...

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... encouraged to solve conflicts and discuss criticisms openly.

Communication Model: The level to which organizational communications are restricted to the formal hierarchy of authority.

To conclude, we will look at a clear example of an excellent organizational culture, the NUTRESA group, this company provides excellent opportunities for employees to grow both professionally and personally. Besides the workers are from generation to generation, in this company work or worked the children, the parents of these children and grandparents of these children, bringing always a family atmosphere.

Some of the activities Nutresa provides its workers are:

• Health and healthy lifestyles stimulation
• Promoting welfare, safety and occupational health of employees
• Training of employees in knowledge and selfdevelopment
• Retirement
• Education
• Fair opportunities for all