Work Culture

Mec85D :: Basics of Management

Work Culture

 The practices, principles, policies and values of an

organization form its work culture.

 The culture of an organization decides the way employees

behave amongst themselves as well as the people outside
the organization.
 Types of Organization Work Culture
 Strong Organization Work Culture
 Weak Organization Work Culture
 Normative Work Culture
 Pragmatic Work Culture.
 Academy Work Culture
 Baseball Team Work Culture
 Club Work Culture
 Fortress Work Culture
 Tough Guy Work Culture
 Bet Your Company Culture
 Process Work Culture
Strong Organization Work Culture

 Here, employees adjust well,

 Respect the organization’s policies
 And, adhere to the guidelines
 People enjoy working
 Take every assignment as a new learning
 Try to gain as much as they can
 Accept their roles and responsibilities willingly
Weak Organization Work Culture

 People accept their responsibilities out of fear of superiors and harsh

policies.
 They do things out of compulsion.
 Employee treat their organization as mere source of earning money
 And, never get attached to it.
Normative Work Culture

 Norms and procedures are predefined and the rules and regulations are set
as per existing guidelines.
 Employee behave in an ideal way and strictly adhere to the policies of the
organization.
 No employee dares to break the rules and strict to the already laid policies.
Pragmatic Work Culture

 More emphasis is placed on the clients and the external parties.

 Customer satisfaction is the main motive of the employees
 They treat their clients as their god.
 Do not follow any set rules.
 Every employee strives hard to satisfy his clients to expect maximum
business.
Academy Work Culture

 Hire skilled individuals

 Roles and responsibilities are delegated according to the background,
educational qualification and work experience.
 Very particular about training the existing employees.
 Ensure various training programs.
 Makes the sincere efforts to upgrade the knowledge of the employees.
 Employees stick to such organization for a long duration and also grow
within it.
 Educational institutes, universities, hospitals practice,
Baseball Team Work Culture

 It considers the employees as the most treasured possession of the

organization.
 Employees are true assets.
 They have a major role in successful functioning.
 Individual always have an upper edge and do not bother much about their
organization.
 Advertisement Agencies,, event management companies, financial
institutions.
Baseball Team Work Culture

 It considers the employees as the most treasured possession of the

organization.
 Employees are true assets.
 They have a major role in successful functioning.
 Individual always have an upper edge and do not bother much about their
organization.
 Advertisement Agencies,, event management companies, financial
institutions.
Club Work Culture

 They are very particular about employees they recruit

 Employees are hired as per their specialization, educational qualification and
interests.
 Each one does what he is best at.
 High potential employee are promoted suitably.
 Appraisal is a regular feature of such a culture.
Fortress Work Culture

 Employees of not very sure about their career and longevity.

 The employee will be terminated if the organization is not
performing well.
 Individual Suffers a lot when the organization is at loss.
 Stock Broking Industries follow this culture
Tough Guy Work Culture

 Feedbacks are Essentials.

 The performance of employee is reviewed from time to time.
 Their work is thoroughly monitored.
 Team managers are appointed to discuss queries with the team members
 they guide theme whenever required.
 The employee are under constant watch in such a culture.
Bet Your Company Work Culture

 Take decisions which involve huge amount of risk and the consequences are
also foreseen.

 The principles and policies of such an organization are formulated to address

sensitive issues. it takes to get the results.
Process Work Culture

 Employees adhere to the processes and procedures of the organization.

 Feedback and performance reviews do not matter most in such organization.
 Employees abide by the rules and regulations
 They work according to the ideologies of the workplace.
 All government organizations follow such culture.
Importance of Healthy Work Culture
 Importance of Healthy Work Culture
 It decides the way employee interact at their workplace.
 It promotes healthy competition.
 It represents certain predefined policies which guide the employees and give them a
sense of direction at the workplace.
 It makes one organization distinct from other.
 It brings all the employee on a common platform.
 It unites the employee who are otherwise from different backgrounds, families and
have varied attitude and mentalities.
 It helps in implementing policies.
 It promotes healthy relationship amongst the employee.
 It extracts of the organization which extracts the best of each member.
Components of Organization Work Culture.

 Thought Process of the Employees.

 The gender of the Employee.
 The Nature of the Business.
 The Goals and objectives of the organization.
 The clients and external parties.
 The management and its style of handling the employees.