What is Organizational Culture?

[Music] let me introduce you to Jim hello Jim let's follow Jim as he grows up follows his dream creates his own company and learns a lot about organizational culture every human organization creates a unique culture all its own from a small family business operating in its Hometown to a large Global Corporation spanning cultures and time time zones each organization has a distinct identity organizational culture is influenced by beliefs and assumptions what do we mean by beliefs and assumptions beliefs and assumptions come from the things that we hear observe and learn they also come from the

things that we try sometimes these things work sometimes they don't then we rethink and try again just like little Jim [Music] woohoo now let's follow Jim to the university he meets friends and inspires them a quick aside it's important I give you a simple example when we talk about Opera three chairs for Jim and his friends as they graduate and team up to form an organization of Their Own own they decide together where they want to go they create a foundation that everybody can use and [Music] recognize they form teams which align and engage together

to succeed in their [Music] Market but in order to succeed organizations need to be able to [Music] adapt let's watch Jim and his team as they strive for Success [Music] together [Music] [Applause] [Music] y [Music] underneath the surface of an organizational culture we have assumptions beliefs perceptions thoughts and feelings these are taken for granted we can't see them organizational culture is learned it grows as we gain experience from our work and move on together over time the lessons from the past shape our work and Life Strategies for the future and are important enough to pass

on to the next Generations not only for their survival but also for their development Evolution and [Music] success