Demonstrate your understanding of organizational culture and explain what shapes the culture of an organization.
What will be an ideal response?
Organizational culture is the shared beliefs, expectations, values, and norms that influence how members of an organization relate to one another and cooperate to achieve organizational goals. Organizational culture is shaped by the interaction of four main factors: the personal and professional characteristics of people within the organization, organizational ethics, the nature of the employment relationship, and the design of the organization's organizational structure. These factors work together to produce different cultures in different organizations and cause changes in culture over time.
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