Corporate Culture

Personality of a workplace - shared values, belief behaviours

Handy:

• Power - decisions are coming from one centralised figure

Advantages

• Suits smaller businesses because they can react quickly to change and threats

  • Little decisions

  • Little admin

  • Little procedures

  • Little bureaucracy

Disadvantages

• Might lead to decisions being made on instinct

• If the business grows then the centralised person is not able to cope

• Very much Hard HR

  • High labour turnover

  • Low motivation

• Role - built on bureaucracy, logic, rationality

Advantages

• Built on rationality - suits a stable, larger organisation

• Economies of scale

• Good for capital intensive

Disadvantages

• Slow to react to change - mechanistic - have to follow procedures before change

• Wants stability - no flexibility or change

  Wants long product life cycles

• Lacks innovation - doing the job

• Task

  • Project orientated

  • Matrix structure

  • Adaptable

Advantages

• Very flexible - right people, skills, resources, adaptable

• Useful for short product life cycles

• Reaction to change

Disadvantages

• Lacks depth of expertise - people change projects a lot and aren’t specialist like in role culture

• Hard to get economies of scale due to constant change

• Hard to control workers

• Depends on finances - bad if it gets political

• Person - an organisation exists to serve the best interests of the individuals

  • Architects, laws

Advantages

• Person with the most relevant skills will be making the decisions

Disadvantages

• Difficult to manage

• Decisions usually made to further individuals career because its all self centered