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Essay / Culture of an organization - 990
The term organizational culture is not easy to define. It is a vague term that has a different meaning depending on the situation. I understand the term as: the way an organization is managed. Take the word itself, organization. Think of it as an organ of the body. Each provides a different service, works in different ways, has different shapes and structures, and requires different vitamins and minerals to successfully do their job. It's the same thing for a business organization. Each organization will need a different structure or “culture”, tailored to it and the people who work there, to be successful. A more informal approach to the term might be "the way we do things around here." Organizational culture can be viewed in two ways, as an outcome and as a process. The result describes the behavior of people in an organization that concerns how the person performs tasks, treats employees and customers, solves problems and resolves conflicts, that is, how the person exercises his work. The process creates the behavior of people in carrying out their work. Here it is defined as the informal values, attitudes and norms that control the way people behave in an organization. Each outcome or process will determine how an organization is managed. (managementconsultingcourses.com/lesson35organizationalculture.pdf) In order to fully understand organizational culture, I will examine four well-known types of cultures (C. Handy); I will examine the club culture in depth and summarize the role culture, task culture and person culture. Firstly, the club culture; An organization run by a club culture can be described structurally as a spider's web (C.Handy). It looks like a web in which there is a boss or leader. The person who plays this role will be at the center of all the workings of an organization. The same way a spider web works, there will be lines connecting from the center outwards. These lines represent responsibility and division of labor. They are all closely related to the boss. An example of an organization that uses this type of culture would be Virgin, led by Sir Richard Branson. He is surrounded by a close-knit team that he leads and who in turn lead other managers and so on, just like the rings on a spider's web..