Discuss how strong the organizational culture is at your organization. To what extent is the organization’s culture shared by employees and managers?

Choose an organization that you currently work for or have worked for in the past.  You will be applying the concepts of organizational culture that you read about in the background materials to this organization.

Part I, Write a three to four pages paper addressing the following issues: 

1. Describe how your organization rates on these cultural characteristics: detail-oriented, team-oriented, innovative, aggressive, outcome-oriented, and people-oriented.

2. Discuss how strong the organizational culture is at your organization.  To what extent is the organization’s culture shared by employees and managers?

3. What aspects of your organization’s culture do you think should be changed, and what steps would you recommend to change the culture?  Use concepts from Rao (2010) in forming your recommendations.

Part II, 

Rated your organization along the following dimensions: detail-oriented, team-oriented, innovative, aggressive, outcome-oriented, and people-oriented.  Give a brief overview of how you rated your organizational on these dimensions.

Then do a word search in Google or another search engine on “Quiz: What is your Corporate Culture” or similar search terms to see if you can find an organizational culture quiz. Take the quiz and report your result.  How does it compare to your ratings from your corporate? Does it better describe your organization than the ratings of the five dimensions?  Are the cultural dimensions you took from the quiz more useful than the standard text book dimensions of organizational culture?

(Part II, doesn’t need to be formal, just answer the questions with new word file.)