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: Understanding this question is important so that you know how they can be changed. An organization’s culture is shaped as the organization faces external and internal challenges and learns how to deal with them. When the organization’s way of doing business provides a successful adaptation to environmental challenges and ensures success, those values are retained. These values and ways of doing business are taught to new members as the way to do business. Schein, E. H. (1992). Organizational culture and leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Figure 15.8 Culture Creation and Maintenance
The factors that are most important in the creation of an organization’s culture include founders’ values, preferences, and industry demands. Founder’s Values
A company’s culture, particularly during its early years, is inevitably tied to the personality, background, and values of its founder or founders, as well as their vision for the future of the organization.