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Assessing Organizational Culture in an Indian Manufacturing Firm
Author(s) -
Sinha Vinita,
Sheorey Pratima
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
global business and organizational excellence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1932-2062
pISSN - 1932-2054
DOI - 10.1002/joe.21699
Subject(s) - teamwork , organizational culture , outcome (game theory) , business , orientation (vector space) , work (physics) , organizational behavior , psychology , public relations , marketing , social psychology , management , economics , political science , microeconomics , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , engineering
Composed of values, beliefs, norms, language, symbols, and habits, an organization's culture is the systematic way that employees, leaders, and work groups behave and interact with each other. Researchers surveyed top managers at a leading Indian manufacturing firm to determine how strongly the company culture manifested these seven dominant characteristics: innovation and risk taking, attention to detail, people orientation, team orientation, stability and security, aggressiveness, and outcome orientation. They also polled respondents on the organization's subcultures. The results revealed a people‐, detail‐, and outcome‐oriented company that values stability and security over innovation and risk taking and that fosters employee engagement in the form of democratic decision making and teamwork. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.