Organizational Cultures

... Title: Organizational Cultures Author: Konrad Durnakowski, EU Student Subject: Management Organisational Behaviour introduction The organization was born ever since the human beings started to cooperate with each other. Whether it was in the Stone Age when people had to work together to hunt for prey or in Ancient Times to build the pyramids, they had to get organized. Nowadays we can talk about four main types of organization cultures. Some of them have already been known for long time but there are some which were created to suit the needs of contemporary organizations. Power Culture This culture is known as one of the oldest. It stems from cultures developed in Ancient Greece. It would be best pictured as a web. If this culture had a patron god it would be Zeus. The next circle would be set of gods such as Dionysus, Ares, Aphrodite, and Hephaestus. Then half-gods/heroes would follow including Bellerophon, Jason, Theseus and Hercules.

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