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I. Tutorial Assignment - Organizational Culture 1. Organizational Culture and its Characteristics (a) Organizational culture : Organisational culture has profound consequences for worker behaviour, company performance and organisational change and is often necessary. It can simply be defined as a system of shared values and beliefs that influence worker behaviour. Martin (1992, 3) gives the following (lengthy) definition of culture: As individuals come into contact with organizations, they come into contact with dress norms, stories people tell about what goes on, the organization's formal rules and procedures, its informal codes of behaviour, rituals, tasks, pay systems, jargon and jokes only understood by insiders and so on. These elements are some of the manifestations of organizational culture. When cultural members interpret the meanings of these manifestations, their perceptions, memories, beliefs, experiences, and values will vary, so interpretations will differ - even of the same phenomenon. The patterns or configurations of these interpretations, and the...

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