MGT5OBR Organizational Behavior: Analyzing Culture Articles

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of organizational culture, focusing on its impact on employee behavior and overall company performance. It includes summaries and evaluations of three academic articles: "Coming to a new awareness of organizational culture," which discusses the fundamental assumptions underlying organizational culture; "Parsing of the organizational culture," which explores the connection between organizational culture and financial performance; and "Effects of charismatic leadership," which examines the role of charismatic leaders in shaping organizational culture. The report evaluates the articles, highlighting different perspectives on organizational culture and emphasizing the importance of effective leadership and communication in maintaining a positive and productive workplace. Recommendations are provided for organizations to focus on fostering a positive culture, managing employee performance, and ensuring effective coordination and communication to achieve organizational goals. The report concludes that a positive organizational culture is essential for employee motivation, competitive advantage, and overall company success.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Article summary..............................................................................................................................1
Article 1...........................................................................................................................................1
Article 2...........................................................................................................................................2
Article 3...........................................................................................................................................3
Evaluation of the article by focusing on the culture of the organization.........................................3
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6
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Introduction
The discussion will be based on the culture of the company. It is seen that culture of the
organization is essential to be maintained as it affects the overall behavior of the individual.
There are values and beliefs which are important to be considered so that it can be easy to
achieve success in the high level of competition. It is necessary for the company to maintain its
culture as it can give positive impact on the management. Organizational culture is known as one
of the essential factor that can help to focus on maintaining the relations with the employees. It
also influences the workers and the people who have the link with the organization. The culture
of the company impacts the working structure of the company and can also affect the overall
growth. It can be analyzed that culture of the organization should be maintained.
This paper will take into consideration the overall analysis of the culture of the company in
which the study will be made of the article in context to culture of the company. In this report,
the article which is selected from the given article is “Coming to a new awareness of
organizational culture”. In the first phase discussion will be made on the basis of this article and
then 2 articles will be selected which are related to organizational culture. It is important to take
into consideration the overall analysis of the organizational culture as it can help to achieve goals
and objectives in an effective manner. It has been seen that the company can achieve success in
the competitive market when the culture of the company is positive. So, in this paper the entire
discussion will relate to the organizational culture.
Article summary
Article 1
Coming to the new awareness of the organizational culture
In the article given by Schein, (1984), it has been stated that organizational culture is essential as
it helps to focus on controlling the management operations. This article is mainly related with the
entire concept of organizational culture and also due to this there are drastic changes which take
place in the workplace. According to this article it can be defined that organizational culture
focuses on the basic assumptions which is developed so that it can be simple to resolve the issues
which are related to internal integration and external adaption. It has been seen that
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organizational culture keeps on changing from time to time. By considering the views of
researchers it has been seen that culture is related with the practices of the company that can
assist the individuals to focus on the environment. In this article, it has been seen that
organizational culture is related with various factors like formal organizations and cultural
paradigms and also the article emphasizes on the overall external adaption and integration of the
culture. There are various cultural paradigms and also there are various concepts which will be
discussed in relation to the culture of the company. External adaption and culture integration is
also the part of the article.
Organizational culture is known as the dynamic model in which there are many stages in context
to the company. It is important to have proper code of conduct and also policies so that it can be
easy to achieve the competitive advantage. It is important for the organization to focus on
keeping the overall human resource so that positive outcome can be attained. Also the cultural
paradigm emphasizes on the assumption and proper pattern. This article takes into consideration
various aspects related to the culture of the company. It can also help to create awareness in
relation to the methods of the organizational culture.
Article 2
Parsing of the organizational culture
In this article it can be investigated that there is a connection with the entire culture of the
organization and the analysis of the financial capacity of the organization. Good culture in the
company is important as it helps to manage the overall employee’s attitude towards the activities.
If employees are giving best towards the activities of the company then it can help to bring
uniformity in the workers behavior.
It is important to focus on managing the culture and also there are many norms which are related
to the workers. By focusing on the external environment it can be stated that performance of the
workers in the financial basis can be improved. For instance: the operations of the retail sector
are customer oriented and it also emphasizes on the manufacturing units (Chatman, Caldwell,
O'Reilly & Doerr, 2014). So, it is important to focus on the norms that can impact the
performance level of organization.
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Article 3
Effects of charismatic leadership
According to this article, the focus is given on charisma leader who try to maintain the overall
effectiveness of the company. The leaders who are charismatic influence the workers as they are
having good appealing vision.
The leaders who are charisma have a great influence on the organizational performance. They try
to emphasize on the activities as it can help to attain objectives. To maintain the performance it is
essential for the leaders to focus on the overall activities. The results which are attained focuses
on the charismatic leadership. It has been seen that companies’ culture can help to maintain the
culture of the organization so that it can be simple to achieve the desired targets. Management
related to performance should be there so that profits can be earned by the company in the high
level of competitive business world (Wilderom, van den Berg & Wiersma, 2012).
Evaluation of the article by focusing on the culture of the organization
Company culture is important as it can help in managing the overall performance of the workers.
The culture of the workplace focuses on various factors which emphasizes on the factors related
to engagement of the employees and also with the level of motivation in the workplace. By
having proper insights on the article mentioned it is evaluated that there are researchers who
have different views in relation to the organizational culture. By having proper analysis of these
articles it can be stated that culture of the company is essential on which the managers should
focus so that managing the activities can be done effectively. It is important for the employees to
ensure that commitment towards the activities can be maintained which will help to consider
overall targets set by the company.
By doing proper analysis of the article named as coming to new awareness of the organizational
culture it has been seen that there are investigators who emphasize on the entire operations of the
company. The article stated that structure of the company which is internal or external can affect
the overall level of working.
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The next article which is related to Parsing organizational culture stated the concept of the norms
so that it can be simple to achieve goals and also the relationship of the workers in the
technological companies. In this article the focus is given to maintain the culture.
It is essential to focus on the norms of the company so that it can be simple to take into
consideration the entire changes which relates to the employee behavior who are managing the
entire activities of the company. If there are specified norms in the company than it can help to
create good organizational culture which can emphasize on maintaining the overall performance
of the individual. It has been seen that there are various norms of the company which should be
followed so that it can be simple to maintain the overall culture of the workplace. The duty of the
leader is to focus on maintaining the culture so that it can be easy to motivate the employees.
So, it can be stated that culture of the company should be maintained and also proper leadership
should be there as it can help to focus on managing the operations according to the set targets. It
is necessary for the company to maintain the standards so that employees can also be motivated
towards the activities of the company.
The last article is related to the charismatic leadership and organizational culture in which the
description is made of the charisma leaders. In this it has been seen that it is essential for the top
management or the leaders to emphasize on managing the employees so that it can be easy to
manage the entire activities of the company. If charisma leaders are involved in the overall
activities of the company then it has been seen that corporate performance can be maintained of
the employees in the workplace. If there are charisma leaders in the workplace it is necessary to
maintain proper culture so that it can be easy to attain the entire goals. So, it is necessary for the
employees to maintain the overall performance. This article also relates to the culture and
performance of the employees and it has the link with the overall activities of the company
(Shamir & Howell, 2018).
Recommendation
By considering all these articles it is seen that culture of the company is one of the essential
factor on which focus should be given. The organizational culture impact the growth of the
organization. It is necessary for the companies to emphasize on controlling the entire process of
the activities so that it can be simple to accomplish the entire growth of the company.
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Performance of the employees is necessary to be managed so that it can be easy for the company
to aim at achieving the large market share. The responsibility is of the leader to emphasize on the
process of coordination so that it can be simple for the employees to focus on their entire
working structure. One of the major roles is related with communication which is essential to be
considered so that accomplishment of the goals takes place. Communication is important to be
maintained so that in the workplace employees can achieve growth.
So, it can be seen that the practices of the company influence the overall operation of the
organization and it affect the growth and profits of the company in the market.
Conclusion
It has been concluded that organizational culture should be positive in the workplace so that it
can be easy to control the operations of the company. Culture of the company is necessary to be
considered so that employees can feel motivated and happy towards the activities which are
assigned to them. The culture of the company can help the employees to achieve growth in the
competitive market and the responsibility to manage the culture of the workplace depends on the
managers.
Organizational culture is the wide concept that can be maintained by the leaders or the top
management of the company. Without leaders it is seen that company cannot attain growth. It is
important for the top management to emphasize on managing the culture of the workplace so that
positive results can be achieved by the company as employees make efforts to complete the
activities. So, it can be said that culture of the company should be managed so that values and
beliefs of the employees can be maintained with the overall culture of the company. It will also
help to achieve competitive advantage that will help to grow in the high level of competition
prevailing in the market.
References
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Chatman, J. A., Caldwell, D. F., O'Reilly, C. A. & Doerr, B. (2014). Parsing organizational
culture: How the norm for adaptability influences the relationship between culture
consensus and financial performance in high‐technology firms. Journal of Organizational
Behaviour, 35(6), 785-808.
Schein. E. (1984). Coming to a new awareness of organizational culture. Sloan Management
Review, 25(2), 3-16.
Shamir, B., & Howell, J. M. (2018). Organizational and contextual influences on the emergence
and effectiveness of charismatic leadership. In Leadership Now: Reflections on the Legacy
of Boas Shamir (pp. 255-281). Emerald Publishing Limited.
Wilderom, C. P., van den Berg, P. T., & Wiersma, U. J. (2012). A longitudinal study of the
effects of charismatic leadership and organizational culture on objective and perceived
corporate performance. The Leadership Quarterly, 23(5), 835-848.
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