01-06-2010
Organizational culture has been described as: "The set of beliefs, values, and norms - together with symbols, dramatized events, metaphors and personalities - that represents the unique character of an organization, and provides the context for action in it and by it." It constitutes in effect a pattern of shared core assumptions that the organization learns and codifies as it solves its problems of adapting effectively to the external environment and integrating individuals into an effectual whole. And it provides the stage where members of the organization perform. Thus, its economic implications are huge...
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