Organizational Culture in Japanese Companies

References: - social class level And for those who are employed , organizational level (Hofstede 2001). 2014). For example, Schein (2004) and Hofstede (2001) have rated the essential characteristics of organizational culture (OC), the impacts of leadership, and the (Hall, 2014). This information can be used to gain practical insight into the factors that support innovation in business settings. (2009), Ravasi and Schultz (2006)). Another view on OC represented by Needle (2004), and he argues that organizational culture is a product of such factors as history, product, market, The general well-known definition is “the way we do things around here” suggested by Lundy & Cowling (1996). organizational culture is impacted by the power and structure controlled by leaders that define how a group or organization functions (Mats and Stefan, 2008) (2004) maintained that organizational culture is generally created by the leaders of an organization or by critical incidents that occur during the lifetime of an mission of the organization. Dowling (1993) maintained that organizational Subsequently, it includes members of the organization and originates within the structure and function of the organization (Olins, 1989) outcomes will benefit more from addressing OC factors than developing a new operational strategy” (Hall, 2014) values, views and goals, symbols and artefacts are the basis of the group culture, which had been formed historically and economically (Schein, 2004) (Schein, 2010). initiatives (Hall, 2014). Analysis of an organizational culture requires an identification of the elements present in an organization that define the culture, as maintained by Schein (2004).