Organizational culture

Dr. Amjad Idries

Perspectives on culture:

• Managerial.

• Social.

Managerial perspective

• It is functional perspective;

• Something objective and acquired;

• With clear set of values, norms and beliefs;

• Integrated single culture;

• Organizations could be classified based on that;

• Consensus is common;

Managerial perspective

• Conflicts could be managed by better

communication;

• Culture could be managed and modified,

• Emphasized role of leaders/mangers to make

changes happened

Social perspective

• Something subjective with symbolic and shared

things,

• Can’t be measured;

• Continuous process,

• Consider differentiation with many subcultures;

• Interests played important role;

Social perspective• Focus on understanding and study the interactions;

• Oppose groups naturally exits;

• Focus on power distribution;

• More dynamic influence of individuals;

• Reduction of variability of employee behavior

through control (bureaucratic or humanistic

control)

Types of culture

• 1/ Power: central power, influence,

functionality and specialty small political

organizations, leaders’ role and power,

personal communication, central control,

web picture

Types of culture

• 2/ Role: in bureaucracies, logic and

rationality, specialty, procedures and

rules, job description and hierarchies,

small group take the decisions, position

power, temple picture

Types of culture

• 3/ Task: job or project oriented, strength

vary, powers and influences were

distributed, e.g. matrix organization,

right things together, expert power,

flexibility, net picture.

Types of culture

• 4/ Person: individuals centered,

structure serve the individuals,

consensus about management system

and hierarchies, autonomy, personal

power for influence, cluster picture

What are the implications

of organization design on

the organizational culture?