Title: Creating and Maintaining Organizational Culture
Headings: 15.4
Creating and Maintaining Organizational Culture

15.4 Creating and Maintaining Organizational Culture
Learning Objectives
How Are Cultures Created?
Founder’s Values
Industry Demands
How Are Cultures Maintained?
Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA)
New Employee Onboarding
What Can Employees Do During Onboarding?
OB Toolbox: You’ve Got a New Job! Now How Do You Get on Board?
What Can Organizations Do During Onboarding?
What Can Organizational Insiders Do During Onboarding?
Leadership
Reward Systems
OB Toolbox: Best Practices
Visual Elements of Organizational Culture
Mission Statement
Rituals
Rules and Policies
Physical Layout
Stories
OB Toolbox: As a Job Candidate, How Would You Find Out If You Are a Good Fit?
Key Takeaway
Exercises

Content: Workforce Management, 84, 32–38; Rubis, L., Fox, A., Pomeroy, A., Leonard, B., Shea, T. F., Moss, D., Kraft, G., & Overman, S. (2005). 50 for history. HR Magazine, 50, 13, 10–24; Smalley, S. (2007, December 3). Ben & Jerry’s bitter crunch. Newsweek, 150, 50. There are many other examples of founders’ instilling their own strongly held beliefs or personalities to the businesses they found. For example, as mentioned earlier, Microsoft’s aggressive nature is often traced back to Bill Gates and his competitiveness. According to one anecdote, his competitive nature even extends to his personal life such that one of his pastimes is to compete with his wife in solving identical jigsaw puzzles to see who can finish faster.