Organizational Culture
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Organizational culture is a new construct in organizational psychology, which is meant to explain organizational behavior. Until today, there is no consensus in defining culture. For almost twenty years, researchers from various scientific disciplines have been trying to answer to a seemingly easy question "what is organizational culture?" Organization in general exists because of its people and their interactions. These interactions are based on set of rules that are social in nature and tend to influence the employees in their performance of organization related activities. Scholars assert that people with their sets of values contribute to the organizational values. Traditions, norms and culture from employees pool in and integrate with organizational values so that they become a new set of values and culture. Over the years, scholars observed that a tendency to replicate certain cultures exists in organizations, which benefits the nature of their business and the environment...


