Leadership and Influence on Organizational Culture
The concept of organizational culture is an inherent part of each organization and any new member who joins the organization will quickly learn how business is transacted and how challenges are handled within the organization, hence come to know the organizational culture that exists therein. It can be said that the organizational culture is a set of assumptions, beliefs and values that are shared within an organization and helps guide an individual to know which behaviors are acceptable or not appropriate within the particular organization.
The assumptions, some of which may not be directly expressed within my organization help direct the daily operations of the employees since there is a regular and permitted way of doing things and procedures that each employee follows and aligns his actions to even without being told daily. There are standards that each employee believes the company operations must meet in striving to maintain the good name it has built over the years and also some basic values like honesty, perfection and service to clients that my organization often emphasize on. These are some of the major ways through which my organization realizes the cultures that have been established...
The management ensures that the new employees are introduced to some of organization's cultures and they have a trainee attachment period before one is fully absorbed into the organization. The purpose of this period is to ensure that the new to be employee is effectively introduced to the culture of our organization and one of the yard sticks used to confirm one as a permanent employee is to gauge among the trainees who has imbibed and understood most the organization's culture. This is one of the ways that the top leadership influences the culture of the organization.
Indoctrinating a new faculty member to align his thinking and actions with that of the organization is not an easy and straight forward thin and may take time. This is because culture is largely invisible and in as much as it affects and directs the employee's ways of behavior, thinking, reacting and acting in the organization daily, it has to be compared to another to…
