Organisation culture is quite hard to define.
Many seem to agree that organisation culture refers to the organisations’ values, beliefs, habits and how it interacts with different peoples or stakeholders.
Those are certainly some of the dimensions of organisation culture. But are there any others? What about how the culture is incentivised, i.e. its motivations? What about its speed of action, its urgency? Any others?
Would it be fair to explore organisation culture in the following dimensions (and are they the right dimensions)?
- values
- beliefs
- habits, customs and norms
- interactions with others
- customers
- employees
- owners
- competitors
- partners
- government
- regulators
- technology
- motivations and incentives
- speed of action
- dealing with problems
- fears
- interests
I would like to discuss and explore these further. Only once we understand what is organisation culture, only then can we determine how we understand what creates this culture, so we can work with it, or even “re-boot” it.
So feel free to comment below, or even tweet me.