A synthetic review paper on impact of OCTAPACE culture on job satisfaction

Organizational culture is the collective behavior of humans who are part of an organization and the meaning attach to their actions. Culture includes the organization values, visions, norms, working language, systems, symbols, beliefs and habits. It is also the pattern of such collective behaviors and assumptions that are taught to new organizational members as a way of perceiving, and even thinking and feeling. Organizational culture affects the way people and groups interact with each other, with clients, and with stakeholders. Organizational culture includes ethics, values, beliefs, attitudes, norms, ethos, climate, environment and culture. According to Udai Pareek, the culture-related concepts can also be seen as multilevel concept. At the core first level are the values, which give distinct identity to a group. This is the basic ethos of the group. Pareek defines ethos as “underlying spirit of character or group and is the root of culture” The second level concept is climate which can be defined as the perceived attributes of an organization and its members, groups and issues. The third level concept relates to atmosphere which is distinct factor that affects the development of someone or something. In the proposed research paper, 21 studies have been reviewed, on the theme of Review of literature on job satisfaction, review of literature on job satisfaction at work place, review of literature on employee's satisfaction and review of literature on OCTAPASE culture. Towards the end, a synthesis of reviewed work has also been attempted.