Organisational (corporate) culture A03

What is a culture clash?

• Exists when there is conflict or incompatibility between two or more cultures within an organization, e.g.when two firms integrate via a hostile takeover.
• Exists when there is dispute among the shareholders
• Exists when two people in a business disagrees with each other; eg manager and employee
• Exists when subordinates protest against higher authoirties in command chain

Reasons for organizational culture clash (Pick 3)

• Growth of firms

• Insufficient soruce of finance

• Down in customer ratings

• Mergers and acquisitions

• Change in leadership

Consequences of organisational culture clashes

• Understanding and communication
• National integration between employees
• High costs of implementing change and training staff
• happy staff
• Reluctant to change

Do leaders have huge influence on organisational culture

• Yes
• No

The challenge for leaders is to influence people within the organization to follow or to shape a shared vision and corporate culture.

• true
• false

What is not part of the acronym MOVER to describe a good leader

• M - Mentor
• O - Optimist
• V - Vision
• E - Engaging
• R -Role model

What is "power culture"

• exist when there is one dominant individual or group that holds decision-making power. Hence, the organizational structure is likely to beflat with a relatively wide span of control.
• where workers are receptive and can adjust to change, flexible or decentralized structures are likely to be found to facilitate employees and managers to adopt a more entrepreneurial role.

What is "adaptive culture"

• whereby managers keep hold of authority and control.
• exist in organizations that are responsive and<br />receptive to change. Such organizations tend to be innovative<br />and are able to foster change.

What is "innovative culture"

• where the focusison usingthe talents ofteammembers,<br />often from different departments, to achieve organizational<br />objectives.
• exist in organizations that empower<br />workers to make important decisions and to act on their own<br />initiative.

What is "task culture"

• exist in organizations where the focus is on<br />getting results. Individuals and teams are empowered and have<br />some discretion over their responsibilities.
• which exist in firms that empower workers to make important decisions and to act on their own initiative.