Title: How is organizational culture created and sustained?
Headings: How is organizational culture created and sustained?
How is organizational culture created and sustained?
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It's time to walk the walk and build a learning culture
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Content: In the early stages of the organization’s founding, the founders hire and keep only the employees who think and feel the same way they do. The founders indoctrinate and socialize these employees to their way of thinking and feeling. Finally the founders’ own behavior acts as a role model that encourages employees to identify with them and thereby internalize their beliefs, values, and assumptions. But, this only really works in the early stages of organization’s growth. If you apply Mintzberg’s five organizational design stages, by the time the organization reached a bureaucracy the founders are disenchanted with it. It has become so large that they lose touch with it. It’s not their baby any more. Then the new owners come in and start the entire process again. Some may say the new owners have an advantage as they can free up the futures of the existing employees and being in one’s that model their values. The bottom line is, and the experts agree on it, is that values and behaviour must be modeled.