Analyzing Organizational Culture in Morrison: Iceberg Model and Handy's Framework

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Application of iceberg model for identifying the problems within Morrison.............................3
Handy’s model of culture for identifying Morrison’s existing culture........................................4
Suitability of existing culture in Morrison...................................................................................5
Justification for the change in organisational culture..................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
A good organisational culture is the way of maintaining good working environment
within companies where everyone is willing to communicate openly with others and happy to
work in a team. Hence, it is essential to maintain a good organisational culture to achieve the
organisational profit. It also helps to increases the performance of employees (Obeidat and et.al.,
2018). One of the most famous technique of maintaining a good culture is having good
relationship between management team and employees because most of the organisation’s main
reason for not maintaining good culture is the because of bad relationship between these two
teams. Morrison if one of the most famous retailing companies of UK which is founded in 1899
by William Morrison and its headquartered is located in Bradford, England, UK. The following
file covers iceberg model of culture, Handy’s framework for analysing existing culture of
Morrison, suitability of existing culture and justification for change.
Main Body
Application of iceberg model for identifying the problems within Morrison
The model of iceberg in cultural states that there are two type of cultural behaviour at
organisation, one is visible and second is invisible same as iceberg that few part of iceberg is
above the ocean water and most of the part is below the ocean which is invisible. An
organisation also has few factors, attitudes, beliefs, values which are hidden but they impact
upon organisational performance strongly (Suoheimo, Vasques and Rytilahti, 2020). Hence, it is
essential to understand the concept of iceberg model of culture and analyse the key issues in
Morrison.
Three pillars of iceberg model of culture-
Visible cultural practice- here, companies focuses on the visible factors of
organisational culture which is easily seen by others. In context of Morrison, one can easily
identify their culture by focusing on the behaviour of their workforce while working, their dress
code, their eating style, their communication way and many others. Morrison shares a positive
image for their visible culture. They are famous to maintain a disciplined working environment.
Patterns and habits- According to this model, there is a pattern of a behaviour which
should be followed within an organisation (Kloss, 2019). Here, the manager needs to find the
reason of their employee’s bad performance. In context of Morrison, they keep record of the