Organizational Culture and Honda

Honda was a good leader who was able to deal withwork.
all team work issues. He realized that although teamOrganizational culture is the most fundamental element
work and team building suppose many challenges, theof the collective work. It includes the attitudes, beliefs,
final result from a high performance team is worth allexperience and values of the company. Hill & Jones
the efforts and time spent on achieving it. Honda(2001, p. 68) define organizational culture as 'the
understood the way a team plays as a wholespecific collection of values and norms that are shared
determines its success and he treated others as equalby people and groups in an organization and that
and often worked in a workshop with his employeescontrol the way they interact with each other and with
being the owner of a corporation.stakeholders outside the organization. Organizational
During the last two decades the notion ofvalues are beliefs and ideas about what kinds of goals
organizational culture has achieved wide acceptancemembers of an organization should pursue and ideas
as a method to understand human systems and asabout the appropriate kinds or standards of behavior
one of the central concepts in the human resourceorganizational members should use to achieve these
management. The research of the data shows thatgoals. From organizational values develop
every element of organizational culture can be seenorganizational norms, guidelines or expectations that
as an important environmental condition influencing theprescribe appropriate kinds of behavior by employees
system and its subsystems. One of the major dutiesin particular situations and control the behavior of
of strategic leaders is to build and support theorganizational members towards one another'.
organizational elements that make up the collective