National and organizational culture

NATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE.

This refers on how things are done around, the ideal way to do it; the organizational culture is defined by values, beliefs, understandings, and share by a group of people clear boundaries from other groups. Through working together people develop their own way in achieving unitary objectives. Organizational culture can be considering a business strategy.
Observable aspects: symbols, ceremonies, stories, dress, slogans
Non-observable aspects: beliefs, feelings, attitudes. The idea of an organizational culture is to create a better working environment through establishing a set of values among the members of the organization, most organizational cultures are based on the national culture, this is because some multinationals operates in different countries and they as multinationals have to fit in the society and the culture they are entering into, so the organizational culture depends on the national culture (changes from nation to nation). National culture sometimes could be stronger than the organizational culture. National culture refers to the preferences, values, beliefs of the population of the nation, (is not only refer to a country, in a country can be different cultures), by understanding the OC it gives the company an advantage, it provides guidance to all the members of the organization in order to work in a better ambient, gives the company respect among the members and the employees, The organizational culture has two main functions that are the internal integration which consists on how the members relate to each other (one to another) and the external adaptation which helps the company to adapt to the external environment. A strong organizational culture gives the organization the possibility of give the member’s motivation and commitment and it would incentive a better performance, it will also help to reduce conflicts among members. In order to have a strong and a well defined OC you must be aware of how the things are done where you are located, and based on that you must build your OC.