The corporate culture and employees’ performance: an overview

Abstract

Corporate culture is a significant feature of an organization which is implied as the fundamental aspect of organizational strategy. It facilitates consistent employee behavior and helps new recruits to socialize and adapt to the workplace in accordance with organizational goals.Corporate cultures have manifold influence on employee performance and satisfaction levels.Employees act more sincerely and responsibly to attain organizational goals, once they are certain of their direct involvement in the organization. Culture of an organization helps employees develop their skills to observe and question expressive meanings of organizational rituals as well as gives a sense of distinctiveness to its members. As the employees spend the major part of their life while working with organizations, corporate culture gives them an opportunity to enhance their creativity, and direct their attitudes toward everything associated to work life. Thus, organizational culture influences organizational effectiveness. The culture of a workplace has a strong impact on the welfare of workplace in both short as well as long term and a positive culture escalates the proficiency and performance of organizations. The present study examines the relationship between organizational culture and employees’ functioning and performance. In addition, it explores the impact of organizational culture on employees’ performance.