Why is Culture important?
- This influences how people work
- Culture has an impact on the behaviour of individuals at work
- When businesses are looking at improving business performance they often also look at cultural change
Organisational Culture
An organisations culture refers to the values, attitudes and beliefs of people who work in it. All business will have a different culture.
Cultures can be described as:
- Task Vs People cultures
- Customer Vs Firm cultures
- Innovative Vs Conservative cultures
Cultural Changes
- Cultural change is often a reason for poor performance.
- Can be very difficult to change culture
- Quickest way to change culture is to get rid of employees who have been there a while and replace them with new workers
- To change culture you may also need to change the reward system
- To change culture the employees will need education or training programs to explain what is happening and the benefits of this
