Organizational Culture

In different approaches on organizational culture has been observed that there are authors interested in seeing culture as an overview to understand the behavior of organizations, others have been inclined to get to know the leadership roles, the power of managers as transmitters of culture of organizations.

A culture is the particular way of doing things in a specific environment.

Characteristics of Culture:

Organizations, like fingerprints, are always unique. Points that have their own history, behavior, communication process, interpersonal relations, reward system, decision-making, philosophy and myths that, as a whole, constitute culture.
Moreover, culture is expressed in a given space and a particular place of which receives influences.

“The culture determines what people involved in it feel right and wrong, as well as their preferences in the way of being targeted.”

It allows the individual to interpret correctly the demands and understand the interaction of different individuals and the organization.

Example:

In the case of the structure of a company if it wants to take an example, Mc’Donalds, this, like other organizations, possesses the characteristics raised previously,
The subjective culture is made up of customs, principles and values that companies Hamburgers possesses, in the case of Mc’Donalds Today these characteristics would be given by adapting it has done every different culture in which it has been established, fact that the people who serve have to have a full smile durantote all day, and dealing that its market is mostly interested in boys. This type of culture is also given for the way in serving the state, ie policies which employs, objectives and methodology that raises it uses to achieve those objectives.

This organization also has a dominant culture given by the values and principles previously marked. And subcultures given by the situations that should withstand the various branches, such as the same case, to be adapted, for example, the type of meat can eat in one region.

Mc’Donalds also must cope with the changes that arise such as changes to present the culture of children, and that despite a change in the ideology of the main consumers (children and adolescents) should maintain its “goal” original, is to sell hamburgers.