Mashama Pearce

LO1: Understanding the relationship between organizational structure and culture.

1.1: Briefly define different types of organizational culture. How would you describe the culture at Greenscape? Under the different types of culture, what type of culture do you think is evident in Greenscape?

* A dominant culture is where the same opinions and values are conveyed and shared by the majority of the organizations members. * Subcultures are mini-cultures within an organization, typically defined by department designations and where separated geographically. * Core Values are the main values that are accepted throughout the organization. * A strong culture is a culture where its core values are intensely held and widely shared.
As quoted by Edgar H. Schein, a former professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management: “Organizational culture is the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented, discovered, or developed in learning to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, and that have worked well enough to be considered valid, and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems (Schein, 1984).”

The culture at Greenscape evidently is people oriented and all the staff seem to get on well and they seem to be more like a family than colleagues. Lita Ong seems to have paternalistically taken on the role as a parent to her employees by making sure their needs came first. It is clear that Greenscape exudes a pleasant welcoming atmosphere for both staff and customers

The culture at Greenscape is very friendly and team oriented, because it seems that unlike many companies worldwide, Greenscape clearly has a people culture, this view is supported by the definitions of Charles Handy, an Irish author and philosopher