Organisational culture in the changing environment

Abstract

In the context of rapid changes taking place in the economic and business environment in the country/ organizations need to transform themselves radically in order to seize new opportunities. Arguing that organizational culture is a crucial organizational variable that can facilitate or impede the change process/ this paper by Deepti Bhatnagar and Leena Bhandari presents results of an empirical study. The use of competing values framework showed hierarchy to be dominant and market culture to be weak in our organizations/ although there appeared to be interesting differences between the private sector/ the public sector/ and a government department. Implications of these findings are presented