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 The Role of Leadership in Changing Organizational Culture



Every employee is a part of organizational culture as they are the foundation of company culture.  Still it is not easy to change the culture at a glance by the employees. But only the leaders have the power to change the culture of an organization through experience, researches and best practices. Leaders have the influence and authority to set a background for organizational culture.

Culture

Culture includes customs and traditions, historical understanding, habits, norms, expectations assumptions (Sergiovanni & Corbally, 1984).

Organizational Culture

Organizational culture refers to the accepted way of behavior within the organization. It is the combination of experiences, expectations, philosophy and shared values that guide the employees in it. These shared values have a strong influence on the employees that how they dress, act and perform their jobs. In simple term it can be explained that organizational culture is the internal atmosphere and the overall personality.

“At the deeper and less visible level, culture refers to values that are shared by the people in the group and that tend to persist over time even in group members changes. At the more visible level, culture represents the behavior patterns or styles of an organization that new employees are automatically encouraged to follow by their fellow employees. Each level of culture has a tendency to influence the other” (Kotter and Heskett, 1992, pg: 4). 

Four types of Organizational Culture

  • Adhocracy culture – the dynamic, entrepreneurial Create Culture.
  • Clan culture – the people-oriented, friendly Collaborate Culture. 
  • Hierarchy culture – the process-oriented, structured Control Culture.
  • Market culture – the results-oriented, competitive Compete Culture.

There are seven factors that define organizational culture

  • Innovation
  • Attention to detail
  • Emphasis on outcome
  • Emphasis on people
  • Teamwork
  • Aggressiveness
  • Stability

Leadership

According to Northouse (2015) Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal. Leader has the potential to influence the behavior of others.


 Leadership and culture

Primary role of a leader is to implement change. According to Dyer (1985) without a leader and leadership culture change is not possible. Leaders have the responsibility to engage in action plans which focus on cultural visioning. Leaders have the power and authority to bring new assumptions and beliefs to the organization. Same time leader has to manage the crisis come with organizational change. Schein (1985) argued that without visionary leadership, significant culture change will not take place.

According to Lok and Crawford (2004) that the national culture and leadership has an impact on organizational leadership styles, organizational culture and their subsequent influences on employee's job satisfaction and commitment.


Conclusion

Organizational culture is very complex topic. The organizational culture and leadership is the current subject of many researches due to increase in complexity of this particular subject area in recent years. Therefore the way one views culture, will directly influence whether to believe or not. So the leaders have a responsibility to help define, teach, live, measure, and reward the culture they want to build.


References

Dyer ,W. (1985) The Cycle of Cultural Evolution in Organizations in Kilmann, R, Saxton, M, Serf A, R. Gaining Control of Corporate Culture Jossey-Bass. San Francisco

Kotter, J &Heskett, J. (1992) Corporate Cultures and Performance: New York Press

Lok, P. and Crawford, J. (2004) The effect of organizational culture and leadership style on job satisfaction and organizational commitment: A cross‐national comparison, Journal of Management Development, Vol. 23 No. 4, pp. 321-338. https://doi.org/10.1108/02621710410529785

Northouse, P. G. (2015) Leadership: theory and practice. Seventh edition. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Schein, E (1985) Organization Culture, Culture and Leadership: Jossey Bass

Sergiovanni, T & Core Ally, J (1984) Leadership and Organizational Culture: University of Illinois Press. Urbana


Comments

  1. Fahim MBA- Batch-23- 2021December 18, 2021 at 6:54 AM

    Culture in an organization is important factor based on the leadership it’s reflect better culture and a leadership build better organization employee will engage company goal’s are achievable good Topic

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  2. HRM - Esoft -Nadeeka # 23December 18, 2021 at 6:57 AM

    Organizational culture is very important to the leadership and employs engagement.....

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  3. Lasanthi YaparatneDecember 18, 2021 at 7:56 AM

    One of the most important aspects for developing outstanding organizational cultures is effective leadership. Leaders show to employees how to follow concepts that contribute to organizational culture. A leader's responsibility is to communicate the organization's values, goals, and core values.

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  4. ARSHAD MBADecember 18, 2021 at 8:46 AM

    Nothing is impossible for a leader to glance any changes to be adopt in situations, if the subordinates believe on the leader cultural changes can be implemented at any time.

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  5. Manoj JudeDecember 18, 2021 at 4:15 PM

    Organizational Culture is very unique to each and every organizations. The leaders always tend to maintain their preserved culture and values always not allowing to bring alien adaptation into their one. But, in the present changing world, leaders often has to adapt to new trends and the new generation youngsters often tend to find new ways and bring them into the organization, where the Management should have the flexibility and capability in adapting them after a careful scrutiny

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  6. W.A Janaka prasanna DiasDecember 19, 2021 at 2:28 AM

    100% right which was mentioned in your topic and The leadership can carnage organization culture example the MAS holding..

    ReplyDelete

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