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I would suggest that a lot of management's time is spent addressing the motivation of employees, especially in the face of downsizing and layoffs. Hence, our interest in this important and interesting topic. Moreover, have you ever considered how we can help make jobs more meaningful, more interesting, and more challenging? Job-design theory will provide us some answers to that question
In Chapter 13 we will read about and discuss the issue of organizational culture. Why should we be interested in organizational culture? Well, just like no two individual personalities are the same, likewise no two organization cultures are perfectly alike. We also know from research in this area that cultural differences can indeed have a major impact not only on the performance of organizations but also on the quality of work life experienced by the people working in organizations.
Social psychologists and management theorists discussed the concept of culture as a way to analyze and differentiate between effective and ineffective organizations as early as the 1940's. However, it was not until the early 1980's when two books, In Search of Excellence and Corporate Cultures, became popular that the concept of culture became widely recognized as a critical element in the determining an organization's character.
Organizational culture is the collection of relatively uniform and enduring beliefs, values, customs, traditions, and practices shared by an organization's members and transmitted from one generation of employees to another...