Organisational Behaviour and Management Paper 2022

Running head: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND MANAGEMENT
ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND MANAGEMENT
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1ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND MANAGEMENT
In this world of globalisation, international business environment has become highly
dynamic. It is the culture and climate of an organisation that make up the area where the
identity, distinctiveness and personality of the entire workforce develops and resides. All
these factors collectively determine the different areas in which a company could place all the
claims on the energies, loyalties and enthusiasm of the employees. This paper shall elaborate
on presenting a critical analysis of two articles by Warrick (2017) and Yu and Shih (2018) on
the topic of organisational culture. Both these articles investigate about the concept of
organisational culture and what it means of innovative organisational culture.
Warrick, D.D., 2017. What leaders need to know about organizational culture? Business
Horizons, 60(3), pp.395-404.
According to Warrick (2017), culture is the major factor that leads an organisation
towards success. This organisational culture can further be divided into two different
categories- the low performance cultures and the high performance cultures. The former one
refers to the culture were the leaders are highly skilled, are admired, have some compelling
goals, missions and strategies to follow and are dedicated and committed towards ethics,
excellence and services. The latter is all about leading an organisation by the leaders who
provide very minimal leadership and are not at all admired and trusted by the followers. Also,
they have unclear set of mission, goals and visions and hence forth, are completely different
from the high performing cultures. Warrick (2017) in this study have also claimed that
leaders have a great role to play in shaping up the culture and there are certain insights
regarding culture that leaders are required to be aware of. It is to note that building up and
managing organisational culture is a very important role of the leaders. Leaders do have
several goals and at above all, it is all about achieving the desired results. Notwithstanding
this fact, in their efforts for achieving the results, they sometimes become highly preoccupied
with the numbers and improving the revenues while cutting down the costs and managing