Organizational Culture and Ethics

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Organizational Culture and Ethics
Organization culture is a structure of norms, beliefs, and value that govern how people should
behave in an organization. The culture happens in two levels, unseen and noticeable aspect. The
unseen aspect is the underlying aspect and assumptions that are made by the employees
regarding what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. The visible aspect is shown in the
behaviors of the employees.
Why should an organization have a culture to follow? To begin with, organization culture creates
a common identity for the employees. It creates a collective sense of identity to all the employees
and beliefs that go past employee’s individual aspiration. For an organization to have guidance
there is a need for culture. It creates stable working relationships between employees hence
promoting ethical communication. During moments when there are no policies to be used in
decision making, employees can rely on the culture of the organization. Lastly, it helps
management in understanding the employee actions since culture progresses from the
precedence’s culture.
What are the key determinants that place an organizational culture as an excellent? First, the way
tackles situation or any encounter that comes its way, instead of sending it to cycle for analysis
and reports from committee, does it have a bias for action. The culture of an organization will be
termed as excellent depending on the way it caters for its customers. Staying close to customers
and learning their taste and preference. Thirdly, making all employees aware of their best efforts
are necessary for company success and in return, they will be rewarded. Lastly, the organization

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should be value driven; the organization should ensure that it put emphasis on executives
keeping in touch with firm’s essential business.
How can an organization ensure that they achieve an excellent organization culture? First, the
organization should ensure that it focuses on employee guarantee an accord. It should create an
environment that promotes employee loyalty and long-term employment. The organization
should ensure the well-being of the employee for greater productivity. Lastly, there should be
widespread communication and teamwork in the organization.
Organization culture plays a vital role in the success of any business. The structure and policies
set aside to guide in decision making can either bring down an organization or leads to its
success. An organization that has great work relationship between employees it’s very
productive and efficient. Managers should try to ensure sustainability of the culture if it wants to
stay in business for long. Having employee for long-term employment saves the organization a
lot of expenditure, on recruiting new employees and training them. The characteristics of an
organization will depict its productivity or the way its employees will behave. Organization with
high innovation as a character will make the employee be more innovative unlike organization
with low innovation .having a strong organization culture gives an organization a competitive
advantage as more people will like to be associated with the organization so as to be a basis of
distinct commitment.