Question

" The impact on culture and organisation arrangement is possible because the project can be affected leaving the PM with the responsibility to ensure the works run smoothly by effectively managing the culture and styles (PMBOK, 2013)."

I agree, and I can see this for internal projects. What about external projects, where a project team from a project provider is executing a project for a different organisation, which is the client? Will there be two different cultures, and what is the impact of that?

Answer 1

Ideas, believes or customs are termed as culture. Company’s values, beliefs, business principles, traditions, ways of operating and internal work environment constitutes an organizational culture. Overall attitude of an organization can be evaluated by culture. It measures that what perception od others have on the organization. It sets standard of behavior for employees, as to what they should do and what not.

Following are some factors that influence the organization’s culture

1. Relationships- Relationship among the individuals or groups affects the culture. Good relationship brings coordination and coordination lead to success. Employees must have trust on organizational complaint and grievances systems. There must be existence of social norms at the workplace.
2. Leadership- . Effective leadership makes the group more goal oriented, facilitates goal settings and finally enables it to achieve its goals. An effective leader encourages interaction among the group members and promotes cooperation and teamwork between the members. Hence if there is lack of effective leadership then it may affect the culture of organization
3. External parties- Some external parties can affect the work culture of an organization. Example of this can be, Some multinational companies have to work according to the time of other countries. Hence this will affect the work culture of an organization.
4. Nature of business- Employees behavior clearly depends on the nature of the business. There may be some situations which cannot be controlled by the management, But the result of such situation depends on the reaction of market. Hence by this the culture of an organization got influenced. It may be bad impact or good as well.