Every organization is composed of its own unique set of organizational objectives, structures, corporate cultures, business infrastructure, markets, operational strategies and processes. While each of these factors is an equally viable part of an organization’s overall corporate structure, the context of the organization’s operations largely determine the nature of its corporate culture.
But by far the single most influential component if any organization is its culture. An organization’s culture is what anchors its ideals and visions to those core values that drive the organization and its actions.
In reality, what management pays attention to and rewards is often the strongest indicator of the organization's culture. Corporate culture comprises the deeply rooted beliefs, values and norms shared by the members of the organization. The behavior that is modeled by the leader and the management team profoundly shapes the culture and practices of the organization. If an organization wants to maximize its ability to attain its strategic objectives, it must understand if the prevailing culture supports and drives the actions necessary to achieve its strategic goals.
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Once management has identified a strategy that reflects an accurate assessment of its environment – particularly the current and future actions of its competitors – a strategy that is congruent with the organization’s core competencies, its inherent skills and resources- management must translate these strategies into overarching goals that unites the organization in some common purpose. An organization can achieve its goals through the formation of a structural design. Included in the structural design must be the outline of an organization’s system. The system includes all the formal policies and procedures which coordinate and control the activities of an organization’s subcomponents.
As computers and advanced communications systems become a more complex and prevalent mainstay of every day’s business activities, managers are faced with the challenges of coordinating activities in a more competitive business atmosphere. Now more than ever an organization’s technology infrastructure is playing an integral part of the managerial decision making process.