We explain what the organizational culture is and the elements that influence it. Also, what are its main features and more.
What is the organizational culture?
Organizational culture is the entire environment that surrounds a job , it is the way that each company organizes internally and workers must adapt to it to fit within a company.
These are not rules dictated by the management of the company but habits and ways of making common to all workers that are considered accepted and that in one way or another all members of the organization have adopted.
Some of the areas where the culture of a company can be revealed can be the degree of individual responsibility of each worker , tolerance to risk, control of workers, the incentive system, tolerance to conflict or the model of communication .
Characteristics of the organizational culture :
Learned
Nobody enters a company knowing exactly how everything works there, but after a while it can become clear what things are well seen and appreciated while also the worst received aspects by colleagues and superiors become clear.
As a result of their own experience within the company, a person can get a clear idea of what the company culture is and adapt to it.
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Interaction
This company culture does not depend on a single person but is something global that includes all workers , so if the number of interactions increases it will be possible to perceive it more globally.
Rewards
Establishing the culture of the organization is closely related to the reward system within the company. Each employee has different needs and desires and is aware of what types of behaviors will be rewarded to meet those needs. These rewards can be affective, financial, personal or of another type depending on the situation.
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Personal
Identity
Employees must feel identified in some way with the culture of the organization and must share a series of values or beliefs similar to those established . If it does not happen that way, the worker will end up not fitting into the company's own culture, which will create a certain rejection by other workers and leading to group problems.
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Hard to change
Implicit
Within the organization there is no body in charge of establishing the culture and monitoring its compliance, but rather the workers themselves who implicitly establish and comply with it.
In addition, these are elements that, even if they wanted to be put on paper, would be very complicated since they are responses to specific situations within the company that each person has already internalized and does unconsciously.
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Distinctive
Integral
Although you may not be aware of it, the culture within a company is integrated into all the elements that make it up . It manifests itself in all places, elements and situations that may occur within the organization. It is also consistent between the different elements that make it up.
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Subcultures
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Veronica is a culture reporter at Collaborative Research Group, where she writes about food, fitness, weird stuff on the internet, and, well, just about anything else. She has also covered technology news and has a penchant for smartphone stories. .