Organizational Culture from an Organizational Behavior Perspective

Organizational Culture from an Organizational Behavior Perspective

Jeremy J Leonard

Bethel University

Organizational Culture is the collaboration between different values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychical environment of an organization. An organizational culture includes organizations experiences, expectations, philosophy, and different values that hold the organization together. By looking at an organizations culture, you can get a detailed perspective of the organizations inner workings that creates the organizations overall self-image.  Biased on written and unwritten rules such as attitude, beliefs and customs that have been developed by the organization overtime can be implemented into a businesses’ overall organization culture.  

  All of this may also be referred to as a corporation culture. A corporation culture can be shown in the way a corporation conducts its business and how it treats is customers, community and employees, the extent of which freedoms are allowed in personal expression, dissension making, new ideas and overall development of the organization can also be implemented into the culture of the organization. All of these combined affects an organizations performance and productivity and provides guidelines on overall customer care, service, safety and quality of product. It also can extend to marketing, production methods, advertising practices, and even new product creations.

When running or being a part of an organization, it is important to set a standard or follow a solid culture. In order to develop a culture that would be beneficial to everyone involved, making sure that everyone is on the same page and can agree on the culture is of the upmost importance. When doing this, it is good to be provided with direct feedback from the employees so their thoughts and ideas can be included into the workspaces.  Some organizations have gone as far as sending out surveys to their employees so that they can get an idea of how they want things to be executed and most importantly, to learn how they could make a more enjoyable and stress free environment of everyone involved. Some of the main focuses of the survey were topics such as teamwork, trust, employee engagement, communication, integrity, responsibly, decision making, operating results, and goals. Each employee was asked to select their top four most important topics. After the results were turned in, upper management implemented the top four most popular topics into their everyday work culture. This method has been proven to be one of the most innovative and effective ways to set a standard for a good organization culture.

Ethics have been proven to play a big role in an organizational culture. Many organizations have been known for putting their employees through ethical behavior programs in hopes to promote and encourage their employees to make ethical and effective decisions to benefit everyone involved. However, simply just putting employees through an ethics similar has proven to not be very effective. To provide a good and ethically ran organization, it’s important to always display your ethical behaviors by example, employees tend to be more motivated when someone is seeing a good example, rather than being told how to act.