Organizations: National and Organizational Culture (february 4th lesson)

1. What did I learn?
I learnt the importance of some concepts such as: Culture and inside it, masculinity and individualism, the culture´s dimensions, the types of culture; moreover the concept of organisation; that interacting among them, build the organizational culture, and how it influences a company´s environment, since nowadays it is very important for a company to count on the establisment of common values, that are headed to align the employees´behavior . In addition to that, the values, preferences, and behaviors shared in groups differ widely between countries, so, we are talking about national cultures. Finally, What i found pretty interesting is the differences between organizational and national culture,( they are very soft)since people tend to relate them because of the culture root.

2. Question: Is the people prepared to a cultural change?

3. Answer: In those cultures that people belief that they can dominate anything, those individuals adopt an active attitude to the change itself, a clear exmaple of that is United States and Canada. In many other countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia, people are summitted to the environment and that is why they keep an passive attitude to the change. But, if the change is posible, ¿how long does it take to it?, the temporal orientation of a culture helps a lot.

Those societies that are foused on the long term, as japan, they will express a considerable patience, while they wait positive results about their change efforts.
On the other hand, the societies focused on the short term, as United States and Canada, people expect quick improvements and they will choose those change programs that promise quicker results. Thus, it is posible to observe how a cultura influences in a definitive way in a country´s development, however, independently of dominant cultura in countries, it is necessary to reoriented it, and mostly interiorize it, and sharing it in order to benefit not only a person but a group of people.

*SOURCE: Stephen Robbins, Organizational Behavior. 2004