Introduction Organizational culture has traditionally been viewed as the determining factor of the organizational success and performance. Numerous studies have concluded that the companies which promote and preserve stable organizational culture, display better performance characteristics. However, when we speak about organizational culture and its impact on the organizational performance, we often lack profound understanding of how management patterns impact organizational culture within the particular organization. […]

In short we can say that the organizational culture is a common perception held by the organizations members, a system of shared meaning. This system of shared meaning is a set of key characteristics that the organization values. Organizational culture is concerned with how employees perceive the characteristics of the culture. During a merger two different organizational cultures have to be combined and after that they […]

Novotel was founded in 1967 by Paul Dubrule and Gerard Pellison, neither of whom came from a hotel background. Driven by an ambitious enterpreneurial spirit, they expanded they empire by building new hotels and buying existing hotel chains. This case study focuses on Novotel in Europe, where Novotel is the market leader with 214 Novotel in 18 countries. From the beginning when they opened their […]

Organizational culture refers to the the shared values and norms together with the  expectations that guide the way people approach their work and the way they interact to one another. Most a times, people are influenced by the kind of environment that surround them, and therefore the people working within an organization will be strongly influenced by the culture of that organization once they join […]

               Power, leadership, and organizational culture are concepts that are woven together so tightly that one is always directly related to the others.  An organization’s culture can help employees, investors, and vendors determine how the organization was created and how it is managed, developed, and changed throughout its existence.  In addition, can organization’s culture must be understood in order […]

This research paper seeks to identify the extent by which leaders can influence, change and even manipulate organizational culture for the sake of organizational development and achieving organizational goals. This research paper will fulfill this objective by putting Nexen Incorporated in the limelight. The organizational structure and the culture that comes along with organizational structure will be used in this research paper as vital details […]

Strategic Alliances2 Strategic alliance is defined as an agreement in which managers pool or share their organizations resources and know how with a foreign company, and the two organizations share the rewards and risk of starting a new venture. There’re many advantages of strategic alliances and network structures as recent innovations in organizational architecture. They can gain better access to attractive country market from host […]

Organizational Culture Analysis Lauri Simmons BUS610: Organizational Behavior October 15, 2012 Every society has a culture that drives their core values, beliefs, and actions. Culture provides a social system and creates a sense of identity (Baack, 2012). Within each culture are multiple subcultures. Subcultures, according to Baack (2012) differentiate a subgroup from the larger group to which it belongs. This also holds true for all […]

ABSTRACT This paper discusses concepts of organisational transformation. Specifically, it examines how the structure and cultures of the organisation can either facilitate or reduce its capability to transform. In doing this, the paper highlights six theories of organisational transformation. It also highlights the various types of organisational change: planned, emergent and incremental. It later focuses on the impact of organisational culture and structure on the […]

Introduction In area of Management and leadership, one of the most crucial and effective factors that determine the performance of an organization in public sector is the organizational culture. Organizational culture has been studied extensively for the past 30 or more years (Schein E. H., 1985). Lots of books have been written and much research has been done about it, and also wide range of […]