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Organizational Culture And Organisational Culture

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Organisational Culture

Organisational Culture is defined as what the employees perceive and how this perception creates a pattern of beliefs, values and, expectations. Organisational culture differs from organizational climate. Climate refers to more temporary attitudes, feelings and perceptions of individuals (Schneider, 1990). Culture on the other hand is an enduring, slow to change, core characteristic of organisations which is an implicit often indiscernible aspects of organisations, climate refers to more overt, observable attributes of organisations.. Organisational culture is “the way things are” in the organisation rather that people’s transitory attitudes about them

‘People’ form a very integral part of any organisation in today’s world and for an organisation to operate effectively its employees needs to understand its culture and business and be able to adopt its ‘culture’ for smooth operation. For example, many organisations, especially in the consumer goods segment and advisory (M&A advisory, wealth management etc.) are very customer / client oriented which means that they are expected to provide the highest standards of services to their clients and always put their clients benefits ahead of the organisation or its employees, this can be called its organisational culture. For example, the organisation I currently work with, UBS, has extremely strict compliance requirements which if breached lead to very serious actions against employees. The company also

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