Culture

Over the years I had the opportunity to work at many different companies. Little did I know at the time, what I experienced at each was some facet of their…

How do we define culture? There are literally hundreds of different definitions as writers have attempted to provide the all-encompassing definition. Culture consists of language, ideas, beliefs, customs, taboos, codes,…

Intra-cultural psychology seeks to understand the cultural basis of behavior by studying the peculiarities of a society, its rules and norms and shows how traditions shape or influence the collective…

Driven by Fear or Motivated by Trust While some managers believe that fear is a necessary part of achieving goals and objectives, researchers from Abraham Maslow to W. Edwards Deming…

Organizational culture and theoretical entities like electrons have some important things in common. First, the actual entities themselves are in principle invisible to the naked eye so while their “reality” has often…

What is Culture? Culture is often defined as a set of practices and activities to which a particular group of people assign some significance. This often relates to types of…

All three of these facets of culture are important to an organization’s shape and functioning. The economic aspect of the cultural environment embraces such issues as how work is done,…

Academics from areas of study including psychology, sociology, anthropology, business studies, and communications, consider how culture influences individuals’ thoughts, actions and interactions. A respected professor emeritus at Maastricht University, Geert…

Introduction This article provides an overview of organisational culture, how it is formed and the practical actions that can be taken to understand and shape it. The prevailing culture of…