Question

Identify and define four dimensions that make up an organization's culture, Give Examples for each.

(150-200 word)

Answer 1

The four main dimensions that make up an organization's Culture are as follows

1.ADAPTABILITY: Adaptability simply means change in the internal environment with respective change in the external environment. An organization is adaptable it it changes its work environment, methods, techniques etc with respect to change in its external environment.

Adaptability focuses on assessing whether the organization is listening to the market place and make changes as per the change in its external environment.

Example: Today there is more demand of funky, cool and casual looking shoes among youngsters which cover large number of population of a country ( Specially in INDIA ) But Bata is still working and manufacturing formal shoes and very less number of casual shoes.This means the adaptability level of Bata with respect to change in its external environment is not satisfactory.

2. Mission: Mission is the long term objective of any organization, which describes the main goal of any organization and thus which communicate same to its various stakeholders like employees, shareholders, Customers etc, that on which main objective the is working on and putting efforts to achieve that goal or objective.It also involves short term goals, strategies and objectives to attain that goals. No organization can success without having a accurate and reliable long term mission

Example: Mission of Amazon is to become the largest online retailers in the world.

3.Involvement : As from the word , it can easily understood that its the level of involvement an employee, management,and other stakeholders towards the organization growth. Its shows how an organizations stakeholders are committed with the organization goals and objective and the sense of ownership and responsibility among them towards their work and towards their organization.

Example : employee submitting Kaizen and giving ideas of continuous improvements that help an organization in waste reduction and effective production.

4.Consistency: Consistency in any organizations refers to the common set of standards, rules, core values etc that is set common for all the entities and stakeholders related to the organization. It should not differ from time to time and from person to person.It means the decision making process should on a single standard platform and should not vary.

Example : If an employee is punished for any unethical doings in his/her workplace, he/she should be punished in a common platform and by common guidelines for the respective circumstances, it should not be differed between two employees with same unethical doings. That mean there should not any favoritism.