Organizational culture is a term in vogue in business circles these days. Yet the thinking behind it has been faulty. It has often been thought of as a set of values commonly shared by people across the organization. However, on closer scrutiny it emerges, that culture is far more complex. It is a set of inter-relationships that drive individuals’ personal and collective goals, though it can even bring down people. Ultimately, even this forging of a common organizational culture, in spite of its genuinely positive intentions, may get viewed from a different lens by employees. They may instead see it as a power struggle to impose others’ values. It is up to the talent management abilities of the top executives to make sure that such cultural changes get imbibed with a positive light. The so called “common” values may actually differ between different employee personas, so the execution needs to be keeping in mind such sensitivities.

Source:https://hbr.org/2017/01/were-thinking-about-organizational-culture-all-wrong