Culture is always a determinant topic in the development of a country, a society or an organization; it determines how the group of people acts and how they relate each other.
Culture has had a lot of different definitions but most people agree that culture is the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group.
In a country, culture differentiates the national inhabitants from the outsiders; it is a group of characteristics that makes the group different from the others.
In most of the cases, the culture, values and beliefs inside a country should be similar in order to make the connivance better and easier for the people, but in most of the cases, there are several differences inside the sub groups of the society and it makes the relations harder. It is important to understand the culture of a certain group of people to understand “their way”, the way they act, they relate with the others.
Culture could be an obstacle for the international relations because of all the barriers that it creates for the people involved, but is also a powerful tool for the people that get to know the differences and use them for the own benefits.
An organization acts pretty much like a country but in a lower level; it has its own culture, its own values and is because of this that all the organizations should be considered different and should be treated like that, for example talking about something as simple as paying, there are some preferences and different styles in all the organizations so it is important to understand the differences in order to understand the way of each organization.
Bibliography:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture
2. Corporate Culture: more myth than reality? While business success and failure are often laid to "culture," the term is elusive and frequently misused. Experts in organization behavior say it's difficult to alter a company's culture, and when it does shift, it's often the result of successful business performance changes; Millman, Gregory J.
Essay
The importance of culture inside the organization.
Nowadays, the organizations are becoming more internationals, the employees are more from other countries, the costumers, are all around the world and the scenario is the earth. But even with all this globalization, is still there an own culture inside the organizations?
There is a globalization process going on and all the organizations must get into it, but there is an organizational culture that is different in all the organizations and is proper for each one and is this organizational culture the one that differentiates one company to the other.
The organizational culture should be proper and is the responsible of creating value to the company, the best way of creating value to an organization is through the culture, it is the one that can make the enterprise work in a way that differentiates it from the competitors and is how it is recognized from the other.
The organizational culture should be well specified and accepted by all the members of the organization and should be defined according to the beliefs and desires hat even the owners and the employees accept about the organization. It should define the way that the rest of the people conceive the enterprise.
If there is an important change for an organization such as a merge or else, the culture of the organization should be adapted to the new culture of the merged company, and is a matter of the human resources team to make the integration process easy and to adapt, without changing, the organizational culture.
