Understanding the linkages between Organizational Culture and Performance: An Ethnographic study in Hyderabad, India

In the past decades, the concept of organizational culture has gained wide acceptance as a way to understand human systems and it also proved that organizational culture has deep impact on the variety of organizations process, employees and its performance. Research shows that if employee are committed and having the same norms and value as per organizations have, can increase the performance toward achieving the overall organization goals. Hence, organizational development depends on analysis and identification of these factors. It is clear that organizational culture plays very significant role in the performance of the organization. Being multidimensional and multi layered phenomenon, studies from various disciplinary perspectives of the social sciences, more particularly business management, psychology and organizational studies. Each discipline with its own methodology has undertaken a number of studies about organizations and produced varied results which enhanced the scope of each discipline to take up more studies further within the field of organizational culture. These results are also used as a means of offering quick fix solutions for companies wanting to enhance their performances. Considering the topic of its importance, the present article examines the linkages between organizational culture and performance through an ethnographic study.