Role and Functions of Organization Culture in an Organization

The organizational culture is the general term for organizations of all members of the commonly accepted values, codes of conduct, team spirit, way of thinking, work style, psychological expectations and feelings of belonging sense of community. The corporate culture is the traditional atmosphere of a company culture, it means that the company values, such as aggressive, defensive or flexible – these values constitute of company employees vitality, opinions and behavior norms. Managers personally, these norms and instill in employees from generation to generation.

Also the corporate culture is a mix of economic significance and cultural significance, refers to the formation of values in the corporate world, the code of conduct in the crowd and community cultural influences. It does not refer to the cultivation of knowledge, but rather refers to the attitude of the people of knowledge; than profit, but profit mental; than interpersonal relationships, but interpersonal life skills embodied in human philosophy. The corporate culture is a penetration in the activities of all the things, it virtues.

The corporate culture is the basic information of the business organization, the basic values and the basic view of the internal and external environment, is a code of conduct to abide by all the members of the enterprise and beliefs, value system and guiding the people engaged in the work of philosophical concepts.

Role of Organizational Culture

The corporate culture is a new theory of modern enterprise management, enterprises really want to step into the market, to embark on a rapid development, better efficiency, and continuously improve the overall quality, must popularize and strengthen the building of enterprise culture.

1. Integration Role

Traditional scientific method or scientific management functions bound to live the behavior of employees, but can not win the hearts of the staff. Strong organizational culture, but it can stimulate the enthusiasm of the staff, the employees are committed to working power. A cohesive organizational culture, organizational values deeply rooted among the employees to the organization as their own home, and are willing to contribute their strength in order to organize a common goal, so that staff and organizational integration.

Organizational culture fundamentally change the old valuable concept of employees, establish new values, to meet the needs of the organization normal practice activities. Once the tissue culture to promote values and code of conduct to be accepted and recognized, the members will make behavior choices meet the organizational requirements, you will feel guilty if the violation of organizational norms, disturbed or. Remorse, will automatically correct their behavior. In this sense, organizational culture has a strong integration.

2. Improve Performance

Management guru Peter Drucker said: “the nature of the enterprise, that decided the most important principle of the nature of the business, economic performance.” If the organizational culture does not impact on firm performance, then it highlights not see its importance, we know indeed play a positive role in tissue culture in the organization of internal integration, but whether it is possible to improve the economic efficiency of enterprises? The answer is yes.

3. Improve the Organizational Role

Cultural heritage organization formed in a continuous process of development through numerous radiation, feedback, and strengthen, we will constantly updated as practice development and optimization, and promote organizational culture from one height to another highly forward. In other words, the organizational culture continue to deepen and perfect once formed a virtuous circle, will continue to promote the organization’s own rise development, in turn, the organization will promote progress and improve the organizational culture of the rich, perfect and sublimation. Successful organizations and enterprises facts indicate that the prosperity of the organization is always inseparable from the self-improvement of the organizational culture.

4. Shaping Products

Organizational culture as a human creation, it is the best form of expression is the company’s products. When the company’s products are infiltrating the tissue culture, the vitality of its products will not be compared to any other enterprise. Organizational culture is a very important role in shaping the enterprise product, product design, production and sales enterprises in accordance with the organizational culture, only in line with the corporate culture products to on a firm foothold in the market. Enterprise products, in turn, selling, consumers will further understand the organizational culture, which is a mutual promotion and development of the relationship.

Functions of Organizational Culture

Specifically, following are the six main functions of organization culture:

1. Oriented functions  –  corporate culture can play a guiding role on the value orientation of the organization as a whole, and each member of the Organization of behavior in line with the goals established by the organization. Organizational culture is just a soft bound by the shared values of the organization to the penetration of personal values, enables organizations to automatically generate a set of self-regulatory mechanism to guide the behavior and activities of the organization in an adaptive culture.
2. Constraint functions – the role of the enterprise organizational culture constraints and specifications of each employee’s ideological, psychological and behavior. Constraints of organizational culture is not system-hard constraints, but a soft constraint, this soft constraints equal to diffuse organization organizational culture, groups, code of conduct and ethics.
3. Cohesion functions – when one set of values is co-sanctioned by the organization’s staff, it will become a kind of adhesive to unite its members from all aspects, resulting in a tremendous solidarity and cohesion. The main reason for the success is organization, cohesion employees have a common goal and vision together, encourage enterprises to continue to move forward and development.
4. Excitation functions – the corporate culture has members from the heart to produce a high emotional and strenuously enterprising spirit of the effects, it can maximize their staff’s enthusiasm and pioneering spirit. The emphasis on people-centered corporate culture management methods. Its incentive is not an external impetus, but an inner guidance, it is not a passive to meet the psychological needs of the people to realize their own values, but through the shaping of the organizational culture, so that each employee from the heart dedication to organization combatant.
5. Radiation functions – corporate culture, once formed a fixed pattern, it will not only play a role within the organization, the impact on the organization’s staff, but will also have an impact on the community through a variety of channels. The spread of the culture of organizations to establish the organization’s image in the public and the corporate culture has a great influence on the development of social culture.
6. Brand functions – enterprise brand image in the minds of the public, is a hardware based products and services “and a corporate culture based software as consisting of complex. Excellent corporate culture, enhance the brand image will play a huge role. Excellent unique corporate culture can produce huge brand such as “Microsoft”, “Ford”, “GE”, “Coca-Cola”, their unique corporate culture in its brand building process has played a significant role. The brand value is the accumulation of time, but also the accumulation of corporate culture.