National and Organizational Culture

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Culture is a word difficult to define, because this word may defines all contexts we are living at. A common definition of culture is “a collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the member of one human group from another”, but is necessary to add a lot of concepts on this definition, for example culture includes group customs, beliefs, likes, preferences etc, that what make the study of cultural factors be an important lessons on international relations or just in all human interactions. For example an entrepreneur or for an enterprise is very important to take into account all national culture differences to make a decision because all cultural analysis gives you predictability on your enterprise’s profits or goals.

In the same way is very important to take into account the analysis of organizational behavior that is an important topic to analysis, there is a video about a conference called “Getting to the top”, in which the CEO’s of Oodle, Mr. Craig Donato, talk abput organizational or corporate culture:

video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaF-7VolbS4&feature=player_embedded

Finally, it’s important to know about the different types of organizational culture that exist to make an analysis about which of all I belong and how to behave in, those are:

• Clan culture: is like an “extended family”.
•   Hierarchy Culture:  More formal organizations, rules and procedures are the base of the organization.
• Adhocracy Culture: Workers  take risks cause they have to be creative
•  Market Culture: competitive workers, first goal “getting the job done.

Question:

Why is managing organizational behavior in changing times challenging?:

Organizational Behavior in changing times is very difficult, despite all changes crate opportunities, during the change, people found the experience of change as a threat, and most of the people would become rigid and reactive, rather then open.minded and responsive.
But all big changes disrupt people’s habitual behavior and force individuals to learn new skills, so it started to became a positive change. That’s why the recommendation is to see change as positive and challenge as a good rather than bad. if it's not like that change is going to tranform as an obstacle inside the organization.

Bibliography:

Behavior in times of change. (1992).Organizational Behavior and Opportunity. Retrieved form: http://4ltrpress.cengage.com/orgb/sample/ORGB_Ch1.pdf