Question

1 Why is it important for managers to align a company’s vision and strategies with its organizational culture and structure?

2 How do I find out about an organization’s “social glue,” its normal way of doing business?

3 What can be done to an organization’s culture to increase its economic performance?

Answer 1

1.

Organizational culture is nothing but the collection of assumptions, values and beliefs which gives the clear picture to people as how to behave in organization. These shared assumptions, values and beliefs influence the people in the organization to depict right kind of behavior in order to perform their jobs better.

It is important for managers to align a company's vision and strategies with its organizational culture and structure because: -

• It help in aligning and supporting strategic plans that is needed to achieve overall operational excellence.
• Implementing and enhancing employee incentive program to improve efficiency.
• It helps in influencing right behavior of employees
• It support peer group observation to improve efficiency.
• It helps the people work ethically.
• It makes people work in challenging situations.
• It makes the people work collaboratively as a team to achieve common goals.
• It helps in educating staff for advancement opportunities.
• Open communication culture makes the communication system effective and help in building strong relationship among employees and management.
• Safety oriented culture to make the work environment employee friendly resulting in better productivity.
• Result oriented culture refers to high performance that makes the organization to give highest level of performance..
• Learning culture by sharing information make the organization competitive.