Know the Difference Between Culture and Ideology
The 1st Step in Creating Your Best Employee Experience
The best employee experience is the result of an organisational culture which engages and aligns their emotional commitment to the organization and its goals because they are emboldened and empowered to use exceptional discretionary effort.
Culture is the fusion of beliefs, values, norms and behaviors that provide the organisational cultural character. The degree of cohesiveness of organisational culture is the extent to which its members have internalised the beliefs, attitudes and values within the organisation, as manifested in their individual and collective behaviors. It is important to understand that culture is what the organisation “is”, and not something that the organisation “has”. The implications of such a perspective are that organisations would behave and act as a consequence of how it interprets its world. It is this enactment and interpretation process that constitutes the essential dynamics of organisational culture.
The earlier article “Organisational Culture Made Simple” explained that: “Organisations evolve as they make sense of themselves and their environment. As a social organism, the organizational survival instinct seeks to reduce uncertainty through information flows, and the organization is…
