Leadership

Executive Summary

This report provides a brief yet comprehensive understanding towards organisation culture from various perspectives. In the era of globalisation and emerging markets, this ever-changing environment has caused organisations and leaders look further and deeper into this context. This topic now requires more attention than it did few decades ago and in order to survive or thrive among other organisations, they have to adapt and learn to sustain in this playing field. The research on this report will include several important findings on organisational culture and its related aspects that contribute to creating a successful organisation.

The main findings from this report give focus and define the concept of culture and values within organisations. It will also reveal the importance of having the right culture and core values for different types of firms and sectors as an introduction. Analysis on culture strength and adaptability will provide a deeper insight on how strong and weak culture will affects organisation performance in different timeframes and conditions.

The Competing Values Framework is discussed thoroughly to examine types of culture along with their characteristics that lies within and also the applications of this model for different organisations in determining its effectiveness and values. Discussions also provided on the methods of shaping culture and process for sustainability.

The report concludes with recommendations that may assist organisations and firms to be more effective in both management and performance includes 1)

1.0 Shaping culture and values

1.1 Organizational Culture

According to Williams, organizational culture is the set of key values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by organizational members (Williams, 2007). Organisational culture has an influence how people set individual and professional goals, perform tasks and administer resources in order to achieve them (Lok & Crawford, 2004). The main...