Knowra Organizational culture Organizational culture Organizational culture is the shared assumptions, values, and practices that shape behavior within an organization. It is learned and reinforced through everyday interactions, routines, and symbols.
Organizational socialization : The process through which people learn an organization’s norms, values, and expected roles. It transmits cultural expectations to newcomers through formal instruction and daily interaction.
Edgar Schein : An organizational psychologist known for influential work on organizational culture and leadership. His model separates visible artifacts, stated values, and underlying assumptions.
Organizational change : A transition in an organization’s structures, processes, strategies, or practices. Established assumptions can enable or resist changes to formal systems and daily work.
Organizational structure : The formal arrangement of roles, responsibilities, authority, and relationships within an organization. Structure specifies official relationships; culture shapes how people interpret and enact them.
Organizational performance : The results an organization achieves relative to its goals and resources. Cultural norms affect coordination and decision-making, but their effects depend on context.
Organizational routines : Recurring patterns of interdependent actions carried out by members of an organization. Repeated routines turn shared expectations into recognizable, habitual behavior.
Competing Values Framework : A model that classifies organizational cultures by tensions between flexibility, stability, internal focus, and external focus. It maps cultural patterns onto competing priorities rather than treating culture as one-dimensional.
Leadership : The process of influencing people toward shared goals. Leaders shape culture through what they model, reward, tolerate, and attend to.
Organizational strategy : A plan for how an organization will pursue its goals and allocate resources. Strategy states intended direction, while culture influences how that direction is carried out.
Business ethics : The principles and standards that guide ethical conduct in business. Everyday norms can support ethical action or normalize behavior that formal codes prohibit.
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