Organizational Culture and Climate

The article below is a great summary to the subject that we spoke about in our last class. An organizations culture and climate can greatly affect how a company performs. As we discussed in class, organizational climate has more to do with the overall attitudes and feelings of the employees in that organization. The organizations culture tends to be what upper management would like the overall climate to be.
An organization's culture generally tends to be an offset of the type of CEO in the organization, as the article explains. For instance a CEO who has an entrepreneur mindset would tend to create a culture that makes fast decisions, takes risks and likes to innovate. A great example of this would be Apple computers. On the other end of the spectrum would be insurance companies and banks who tend to have cultures that avoid risk.
Depending on the industry and upper management styles will greatly affect the type of culture that one works in but either way it is important as a manager and employee to know that culture and climate exists within an organization. How one feels about a particular company culture can greatly affect how much job satisfaction you will receive from the job and it is important to know a companies culture ideals before you work for them.

http://businessmanagement.suite101.com/article.cfm/organizational_culture_and_climate

Author: Mitch McCrimmon.