CORPORATE CULTURE

Muhammed ÖZDEMİR - 200931004 !

Ömer AYDIN - 200937001 !

Doğukan AYDIN - 201135005

Topics I

What is Corporation?!

What is Culture ?!

What is Corporation Culture ?!

Layers of Corporate Culture.

Topics II

Elements That Influence Corporate Culture!

The Cultural Paradigm!

Succesful& Unsuccesful Corporations!

Corporation Quality

Topics III

Organizational Change!

Forces for Organization Change!

Resistance to Change!

Models of Organizational Change!

8 Ways To To Keep Corporate Culture Alive

What is Corporation ?

A legal entity that is separate and distinct from its owners.

The Word “Corporation”

The word "corporation" derives from corpus, the Latin word for body, or a "body of people."

The Oldest Companies

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1. ”Oldest Hotel". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 29 October 2011. !2. Allen, Jason (2013-05-27). "The Very Strange Story of Japan's Thousand-Year-Old Hotels". Thrillist. Retrieved 2013-12-03.

Oldest Corporation List

The Oldest Turkish Company

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies

The Oldest Turkish Companies That Still Exist

1. www.ekodialog.com/istatistik/ozel_stat/es_sirket.html

What is Culture ?Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.

Corporate Culture - ICorporate culture is a set of characteristics that define a business. !

It involves employee attitudes, standards (policies and procedures), and rites and rituals.

Corporate Culture IIThe culture of a company is connected to the characteristics found in the surrounding society, but it also has some traits, such as a hierarchy system, that are unique. !

It can be negative, neutral, or positive, and although some businesses like to portray corporate culture as static, in most cases, it changes over time.

A Short Brief for a Corporation Culture

Hierarchy

İdeal Employee

PART II

Elements That Influence Corporate Culture

The Paradigm

What organization is about;what it does ;its mission; its values ,leadership , behavior , priorities…

Control System

Processes in place to monitor what is going on.Role cultures have vast rulebooks.More reliance on individualism in a power culture.

Organizational structures:

Reporting lines ,hierarchies, and the way that work flows through the business.

Power Structures

Who makes the decisions ,how widely spread is power ,and on what is power based?

Symbol

Organizational logos and designs ,symbols of power such as parking spaces and executive washrooms.

Rituals and Routines:Management meetings ,reports, briefing, celebrations.

Stories and Myths

Build up about people and events .Convey massage of what is valued within organization.

Successful Corporations

Successful corporations have strong cultures.

Unsuccessful Corporations

When the companies don't have cultures and constitution, they can not improve so with time easy to see their mistakes

Corporation Quality

Employee quality : directly affects corporate culture!

Product quality : corporate culture directly affects product culture !

Team quality : It affects the system !

Service quality : service quality shows the corporation quality

PART III

Managing Organizational ChangeOrganization culture can facilitate or inhibit change in an organization.!

A firm attempts to change organizational culture because the current culture hinders the attainment of corporate goals.!

Environmental and internal forces can stimulate the need for organization change.

Forces for Change: Environmental Forces

Put pressure on how a firm conducts its business and its relationships with customers, suppliers, and employees.!

Environmental forces include:! -Technology -Market forces -Political and regulatory forces -Social trends

Forces for Change: Internal Forces

Come from decisions made within the company.!

May originate with top executives and managers and travel in a top-down direction.!

May originate with front-line employees or labor unions and travel in a bottom-up direction.

Resistance To Change

Self-Interest

Lack of Trust and Understanding

UncertaintyDifferent Perspectives and

Goals

Cultures that Value Tradition

Models of Organizational Change

Lewin’s three-step model!

Force-field analysis model

Lewin’s Three-Step Model of Organizational Change

Unfreezing RefreezingChange

Force-field Model of Change

Restraining forces

Driving forces

Status quo

Desired state

Time

Implementing Organizational Change

Top-down Change

Change Agents

Bottom-up Change

Change agents should take the following steps to obtain a

successful change outcome:

1. Establish a sense of urgency.

2. Form a powerful coalition of supporters of change.

3. Create a vision of change.

4. Communicate the vision of change.

5. Empower others to act on the vision.

6. Plan and create short-term wins.

7. Consolidate improvements and produce still more change.

8. Institutionalize new approaches.

Tactics for Introducing Change

Communication and Education Employee Involvement

Negotiation

Coercion

Top-Management Support

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8 Ways to Keep Corporate Culture Alive

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1. Enforce the penalty

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2. Remember where you came from

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3. Hire with heart

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4. Culture must be universal

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5. Build and Maintain

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6. Don't Compromise

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7. Don't Poison the Well

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8. Lead by Example

Bibliography

Wikipedia!http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/corporation.html!http://www.livescience.com/21478-what-is-culture-definition-of-culture.html!http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-corporate-culture.htm!http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-corporate-culture.htm!Slide Share!Wordpress!http://www.teias.gov.tr/eBulten/haberler/2012/KurumKulturuSemineri/KurumKulturuSemineri.pdf!http://www.entrepreneur.com/encyclopedia/corporate-culture!

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Muhammed ÖZDEMİR

Ömer AYDIN

Doğukan AYDIN