Types of corporate culture

Corporate culture of an organization is created by a number of things. It’s created by people who work for this organization. It’s created by the kind of management systems which exist in an organization, and quite often it’s created by the style of the company’s leader.

An organization which exhibits a very bureaucratic culture would have quite strict systems of control. There would be a lot of management systems to control people; there would be a lot of company directives, a lot of company rules. The senior managers would be fairly autocratic, probably respected by their subordinates in the company, and generally the company would be run along very strict and rigid lines.

In a company which exhibits a facilitating culture, which is the culture whereby employees are empowered to do their jobs, responsibility is devolved, people are encouraged to express themselves, to work in different ways, to get things done in their own way, rather than the way in which the boss says. One would associate that kind of organization with much looser control systems. Senior managers would probably tend to be much more relaxed, far less autocratic and possibly fairly charismatic characters, who have the confidence to devolve responsibility to their subordinates, respected for themselves rather than for the position of authority that they hold within that company.

When anyone starts a new job, they have to learn the ways in which things are done in the new organization that they’ve entered. So it’s a traumatic process for anybody, even if the organization is similar to the last one you worked for. In most cases people will adapt over a period of time. People will adapt to the new way of working either by peer pressure conforming to the way their peers within the organization are working or because the employer has recognized there’s a problem and maybe has given them some additional training to enable them to cope with the new system of working.

One of the most important things is to create the kind of corporate culture you feel comfortable to perform – that means creating a high productivity culture. Corporate culture is changing the attitudes of your employees. It’s obviously the most powerful motivating tool that a company can have because the company’s culture can encourage employees to relate their own personal goals of working to the organizational goals, so that by achieving your personal goals, you’re going some way to achieving your organizational goals. The best way that a company can do that is to identify themselves as an employer who cares about developing their subordinates and encourages personal development and personal growth so that people are getting something out of work other than just a living wage, things like promotion, recognition, responsibility and a demanding position.

1. Answer the questions:

1. What influence does a corporate culture have on the organization and people who work for it?

2. What’s there at the heart of corporate culture?

3. What types of corporate culture can you name? What type is the most effective in your opinion?

4. Is it easy to start a job in a new company?

5. Why is a company’s culture called “the most powerful motivating tool”?

6. Formulate your own definition of the corporate culture.

2. Replace the words in italics by synonyms from the text:

1. Companies often succeed when their subordinates identify the shared values.

2. Corporate culture influences the success of the organization.

3. Everyone in the company knows the objectives necessary to achieve.

4. In companies with a facilitating culture people are stimulated to work their own ways.

5. In a high productivity culture employees link their personal aims with the aims of the organization.

6. People would like to work not only because of money but also because of the chance to have a challenging post.

7. The thoughtful way of doing work is different to a tough approach.

8. A company with a bureaucratic culture is organized strictly and autocratically.

9. Even if a new organization reminds you the last one you worked for it will take some time to adapt.

10. It’s rather difficult for new comers to manage a new style of working.

3. Make collocations:

A verb + preposition + a noun

1. hold about a company

2. run for a problem

3. cope in employees

4. work to a system

5. care with a line

6. adapt along esteem

B verb + adjective + noun

1. exhibit organizational development

2. have a strong job

3. encourage a bureaucratic goals

4. achieve personal influence

5. create a new culture

6. enter a powerful motivation

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Text 1. Corporate culture of an organization	\|	Text 2. The caring company

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