Understanding organizational culture and leadership - enhance efficiency and productivity

This paper reviews the existing literature on relationships between innovativeness and organization structure and culture, technical process approach, and encourages employees to find the meaning and purpose in their work, and to link their individual efforts to those of the entire company. This paper further argues that certain organizational cultural attributes contribute to the shaping of future courses of action, the core of team building, achieving change, and understanding the goals and strategies of the business. Next, this paper points out how knowledge management and organization culture can direct day-to-day behavior, support structural and process changes, and create the climate required for successful implementation of innovation strategy. Basically, organizational culture is the personality of the organization, and will drive the employee's productivity and company performance levels. Culture is comprised of the assumptions, values, norms and tangible signs (artifacts) of organization members and their behaviors, and leadership. This article provides a process for mapping and describing organizational culture.