Culture's Dominance Over Strategy: A UWS Leadership Perspective

This discussion board post explores the concept of organizational culture dominating strategy, arguing that culture significantly influences organizational performance and can often override strategic plans. It highlights that employees are more loyal to a strong culture that fosters individuality and fellowship than to a strategy alone. The post references the cultural diversity across nations, noting differences in individualism versus collectivism and the challenges organizations face due to linguistic barriers and changing social behaviors. It emphasizes that culture determines desire, engagement, and execution, enabling resilience during challenging times. The example of Air Asia's open and friendly culture is used to illustrate how a strong culture can foster commitment, transparency, and a meritocratic environment, ultimately helping the organization achieve its goals and maintain customer trust. Desklib provides access to similar resources and solved assignments for students.

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Culture influences organizational performance
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11/24/2018

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In today’s era, Culture is defined as the personality and the features of the organization. It is
the plan of basic traditions, which are developed, by the group of people to cope with its
problems of exterior adaptation and internal integration. It is scrutinized that the culture and
the strategy interacts and majorly influences the performance of the organization. Culture is
considered as the main ingredient that ensures the sustainable success of the organization and
further leads to maintenance of its competitive advantage. It is observed that people are not
loyal towards strategy but are loyal towards following the culture that offers individuality,
fellowship, and a friendly environment. Inheritance of culture does not require strategy to
implement the policies in the organization as the employees are already embedded with
values that help them to unite the goals of the organization (Driskill, 2018).
The cultural diversity among the different nation’s influences the performance of the
organization as the European countries follows the organizational culture that focuses on
individualism and the powers are distributed at all the levels of the hierarchy while in the
China it adopts the culture that focuses on collectivism and has high power distance index
(United language group, 2018).
The organizations face linguistic barriers and changes in the social behavior of humans in
different nations. It faces the fluctuations in the beliefs and values of the customers, which
further affects the sustainability of the organization. A strategy is about the intent and
creativity while the culture determines and measures desire, engagement, and execution. The
culture helps the organization in resilient times, as the people are aware of the cultures and
the values, which, helps in retaining the trust of the customers. Therefore, the culture eats the
strategy in lunch. This is illustrated by considering the real world example- Air Asia adopts
the open culture in which there is clear communication among the workforce. It adopts the
friendly informal culture that inculcates enthusiasm and commitment among the workforce
and strives honesty and transparency in the operations of the organization (Keegan, 2014).

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It nurtures an unbiased meritocratic environment, which provides opportunities for the
workforce to explore and advance their personal growth irrespective of religion, nationality,
gender. The culture of the organization inculcates the desire among the employees to work in
the United direction and maintain the competitive edge of the organization. Therefore, it
facilitates the organization to retain the trust of the customers and achieve its organizational
goals (Corridor Business, 2013).

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References
Corridor Business. (2013)Eight reasons culture eats strategy for lunch [Online]. Available
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Driskill, C.W.G. (2018) Organizational culture in Action.3rded.NewYork:Routledge.
Keegan, T.(2014).Influencing organizational strategy. Scotland:University of the west of
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United language group. (2018)What are the six cultural dimensions? [Online].Available
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