CULTURE WHAT IS ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE? WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? Organisational culture is a complex phenomenon, usually related to shared values and shared meanings in an organization, but also related to common ways of dealing with, or ignoring, commonly experienced problems. It is a form of commonsense, an outcome of cultural processes at work in a particular setting. The benefits of paying attention to culture are that it focuses on people but in particular on …showed first 75 words of 2235 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2235 total…by contextual forces, which constrain or enable them to develop. Nevertheless, this development is likely to take place following patterns of development, stages, periods of activity and inertia, which have been identified by recent research. Teams might not be the universal panacea which some popular treatments claim, but they do have some common features and properties, knowledge of which can help us both to manage some teams and be useful member of others... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**