Analyzing Organizational Culture's Impact on Information Sharing

This report investigates the significant impact of organizational culture on an organization's ability to effectively manage and share information. It begins by defining organizational culture, information sharing, information management, and the term 'impact.' The report emphasizes that organizational culture greatly influences an organization's capacity to share information and achieve competitive advantages. It highlights the importance of a culture that encourages open communication, employee participation, and the sharing of ideas. The report also discusses the role of culture in multinational organizations, the elements of culture, and the importance of information-sharing platforms. It concludes by emphasizing the positive effects of information-sharing culture, including improved productivity, trust among employees, and cost savings.

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Impact of organizational culture ability in sharing information and effectively
managing the organization
Formal research is that style of research where data is gathered in a structured, controlled,
and systematic manner. In this assignment also, research is carried on in effective and
structured way. It is true that organization culture puts the great impact on the ability of
organization to share the information and manage. By effective organisation of culture,
organization can also achieve the competitive advantage. Organization culture is the set of
beliefs and values that are followed in any organizational culture. It also includes the
organization experience, expectations, values, and philosophy that guide the behaviour of
member. Several organizations have the culture of open mind and encouraging environment
(Alvesson and Sveningsson, 2015). Organizations like Google follow the culture in which
employees are free to share their ideas and any information. It not only helps in achieving the
growth by organization but also helps in motivating the employees to work more hard.
Culture plays an essential role in the multinational organization as they are required to follow
different culture based on the environment of country.
According to Winnubst, (2017) culture includes the several elements such as leadership
climate, encouragement activities, process, rewarding system of organisation, structure
followed in organization as well as quality of information sharing. In recent fast changing
environment, most of the big organizations give focus on the large participation of employees
in the decision-making of various activities. Therefore, fostering of encouraging culture
enables the organization to fill the information gaps, bringing creativity as well as promoting
of positive leadership. Sharing of quality information also assist the organization in getting
the huge customer base and growth in market.
In every organization, information sharing also describes the transferring of data between
several process, people, as well as technologies in the organization. It helps in encouraging
the information across different channel that assist in decision making and adopting of
strategies. In this way, developing the information system platform in company plays the
vital role to remove the several barriers. By including the employees in decision-making, a
positive work culture is developed in the organization where employees always try to
improve the productivity. Information sharing culture affects the organization in positive
manner. It also assist the manager in discovering and finding out the current knowledge gaps

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present in the organization as well as some short fallings in the recent learning program.
Through effective organizational culture and policies, organization is also able to collect the
information at faster pace and bring productivity in the organization (Körner, Wirtz, Bengel,
and Göritz, 2015). There are times organizational culture affects the performance of
employee in negative manner. It therefore depends on the type of organization culture. In this
way, it is in the interest of the organization to remove the negative factors that tends to slow
down the employee performance.
In this way, it can be concluded that the impact of information sharing culture bring the
various useful and positive insights for the organization. It also helps the organization in
building trust among the employees as well as boosting the efficiency and productivity. It
also helps several organization in saving the cost and time that is associated with the
information sharing. Besides this, it will also help the organization in bring transparency or
accomplishing the objective (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart & Wright, 2017).

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References
Alvesson, M. and Sveningsson, S. (2015) Changing organizational culture: Cultural change
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Körner, M., Wirtz, M.A., Bengel, J. and Göritz, A.S. (2015) Relationship of organizational
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Noe, R. A., Hollenbeck, J. R., Gerhart, B., & Wright, P. M. (2017) Human resource
management: Gaining a competitive advantage. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
Winnubst, J. (2017) Organizational structure, social support, and burnout. In Professional
burnout (pp. 151-162). Routledge.