Abstract

  This paper by Ashok Kumar and Dr. Ch. Bala Nageswara Rao Director SSM, Channai; focuses on the need for creating strong work cultures for developing high performance work organizations. According to him, restructuring through formation of autonomous work groups, reducing hierarchies, relocation, creating awareness about the existing work culture and acculturation are some of the processes by which a strong work culture can be developed.   Key words: Culture, work groups, development, performance, work organization.

Highlights

  • Recent studies on organizations suggest that high involvement and high performance organizations have strong work cultures (Peters and Waterman, 1982; Deal and Kennedy, 1982; Sinha, 1990). Frost et al (1985) argued that economic models and assumptions have failed to explain decline in organizational productivity and performance in North America

  • According to him, restructuring through formation of autonomous work groups, reducing hierarchies, relocation, creating awareness about the existing work culture and acculturation are some of the processes by which a strong work culture can be developed

  • They suggest that the culture prevailing in an organization and possibly the society to which it belongs can provide greater insight into aspects of organization performance

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Summary

Developing work culture environment with high performance work organization

This paper by Ashok Kumar and Dr Ch. Bala Nageswara Rao Director SSM, Channai; focuses on the need for creating strong work cultures for developing high performance work organizations.

INTRODUCTION
MEANING OF WORK CULTURE
RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
Formation of autonomous work groups
Minimum hierarchies
Creating awareness about existing work culture
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