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Corporate Culture

MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY

Prepared
By
Ashish Tejnani

Assess a Real Corporate Culture

What exactly does a corporate culture mean?
Culture is a powerful component of an organization's success, laying the tracks for strategy to roll out on. It is the foundation for profit, productivity and progress. While it can accelerate getting to the next level of performance, it can just as easily act as drag. Culture-Strategy Fit is a leading organizational culture consulting firm conducting groundbreaking culture diagnosis and change projects to help organizations leverage their culture to drive strategy and performance.

A healthy company would keep going, more or less as usual, for quite some time. People beneath the managerial level would assume and/or accept most of the responsibilities. They would make the necessary decisions and find creative ways to continue the operations. Individual employees would stand out and accept leadership because people further out in the organization still need guidance and because customers still want to be served.

In other words, an otherwise healthy organization would adapt to the loss of managers and maintain ”business as usual” for some time. Without proper management, however, one important capacity would be lacking: the organization would not be able to develop. In studying companies that have lost their management, we can thus distinguish the following two lessons:

1. Competencies will probably be released and people will take initiatives and voluntarily accept new responsibilities.

2. The company can survive for some time but ceases to develop.
Management may thus have the greatest impact on an organization if they concentrate their efforts on the company’s development and on enabling people to release their hidden capacities. These two priorities can sometimes be achieved simultaneously by means of a process-oriented management approach. Such a managerial style can, furthermore, have a favourable...