An Understanding Of Organizational Culture Factors

This essay investigates an understanding of organisational culture factors that contribute to a strong and positive environment in a workplace. The essay firstly, addresses organisational culture, and then discusses factors that create a strong culture – behavioral and verbal form. Moreover, differentiating between a strong and a weak culture and the effects within a workplace. Lastly, the essay addresses Wal-Mart and how they demonstrate a strong and positive workplace culture. Organisation has many construals and definitions. Organisational culture can be optically discerned as a stable system of credence’s and postulations that subsist and persist overtime with an agency. Therefore, it is seen as personality of the agency. (Barnard,†¦show more content†¦It goes without saying that, employee behavior and decisions are hugely guided by the cultures that prevail in the organization. Employees, by default, belong to the culture they were born in; however, when they enter the organization they have to set aside their beliefs and adopt the values of their workplace. Adapting to the culture of the workplace is not only important to sustain the job but also so that the company represents one common notion. (Stewart, 2007) suggests that profitability should by every company’s organisational goal- one of the best places to start improvements is with an examination of organisation’s work culture. He states that the strongest component of the work culture is the beliefs and attitudes of the employees. It is the people who make up the culture, he stated. An example of this is , if cultural norms contain beliefs such as , â€Å"Around here, nobody dares make waves† or, â€Å" Do just enough to get by and people will leave you alone, â€Å" the organisations performance will reflect those beliefs. Moreover, if the cultural belief system contains positive approaches, such as, â€Å"Winners are rewarded here† or, â€Å"People really care if you do a good job in this outfit, â€Å"that is also reflected in the orgaisation’s performance. (Stewart, 2007) also states that an organisation’s cultural norms strongly affect all who are involved in the organization. Each