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Corporate culture is the system of shared values, beliefs and habits within an organization that interacts with formal structure to produce behavioural norms. Culture gives people a sense of how to behave and what they ought to be doing. Organization culture is composed of such factors as friendliness, supportiveness and risk taking. Such perceptions are gradually formed for each individual over a period of time as the person performs assigned activities under the general guidance of a superior and a set of organizational policies.
Culture has an impact on the employees’ degree of satisfaction with the job, as well as the level and quality of their performance. The assessment of how good or poor the culture is may differ for each employee. One person may perceive the environment as good while another may see it as bad. An employee may leave an organization with the hope of finding a more compatible culture.
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