Volume : 5, Issue : 3, March - 2016

A Study on organizational culture and its impact on employee behaviour

Dr. R. Hemanalini, S. Suganya

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;Organizational culture is the behaviour of humans within an organization and the meaning that people attach to those behaviours. According to Needle (2004), organizational culture represents the collective values, beliefs and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, and strategy, type of employees, management style, and national culture. Culture includes the organization‘s vision, values, norms, systems, symbols, language, assumptions, beliefs, and habits. Ravasi and Schultz (2006) wrote that organizational culture is a set of shared assumptions that guide what happens in organizations by defining appropriate behaviour for various situations. It is also the pattern of such collective behaviours and assumptions that are taught to new organizational members as a way of perceiving and, even, thinking and feeling. Thus, organizational culture affects the way people and groups interact with each other, with clients, and with stakeholders. In addition, organizational culture may affect how much employees identify with an organization.</p>