This paper discusses organizational culture, the personality of the organization, and methods of managing that culture during periods of organizational change.
This paper explains that the culture of the organization, known as corporate culture, can be identified by examining the norms, plans, objectives, and social characteristics, basically everything that makes up the organization. The author defines various types of organizational culture: academy, baseball team, club, military, and fortress cultures. The paper outlines that, to manage change within the organization, the manager should work with the group, confront fear of change, consider the group’s perspective, build trust, and be willing to compromise.
An excellent example is given in the article: The wave of mergers and acquisitions from the 80s tends to be repeating itself today. Of course, such an acquisition could have meant that there was a chance you will not find yourself in the future of the company. Of course, it wasn’t a necessity, but the stress itself caused by the problem would have certainly diminished your motivation at work, because you would have had to find serious reasons why to keep making a serious effort within a company that you would eventually leave. It seems that the effects manifested themselves not only at work, but also in the family, as well as physiologically.