Nonprofit Organizational Assessment

cultures into the one new culture. This is done through cultural innovation followed by
cultural maintenance.
Cultural innovation includes:
Creating a new culture: recognizing past cultural differences and setting
realistic expectations for change
Changing the culture: weakening and replacing the old cultures
Cultural maintenance includes:
Integrating the new culture: reconciling the differences between the old
cultures and the new one
Embodying the new culture: Establishing, affirming, and keeping the new
culture
Corporate Subcultures
Corporate culture is the total sum of the values, customs, traditions, and meanings that
make a company unique. Corporate culture is often called "the character of an
organization", since it embodies the vision of the company's founders. The values of a
corporate culture influence the ethical standards within a corporation, as well as
managerial behavior.
Senior management may try to determine a corporate culture. They may wish to impose
corporate values and standards of behavior that specifically reflect the objectives of the
organization. In addition, there will also be an extant internal culture within the
workforce. Work-groups within the organization have their own behavioral quirks and
interactions which, to an extent, affect the whole system. Roger Harrison's four-culture
typology, and adapted by Charles Handy, suggests that unlike organizational culture,
corporate culture can be 'imported'. For example, computer technicians will have
expertise, language and behaviors gained independently of the organization, but their
presence can influence the culture of the organization as a whole.
Legal Aspects
Corporate culture can legally be found to be a cause of injuries and a reason for fining
companies in the US, e.g., when the US Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health
Administration levied a fine of more than 10.8 million US dollars on Performance Coal
Co. following the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in April 2010. This was the largest fine
in the history of this U.S. government agency. [44]
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