Organizational Culture and Corprate Culture

Personal growth never stops, when a person get out of school and enter the society, he keeps on learning and developing as a person. As I mentioned in my last blog, I strongly believe that education is the key to better the human society, therefore, if we look at the society as a university then various organizations and enterprises in the society are like its subsidiary colleges and schools. When working full time an employee spends most of his day in a corporation, therefore the corporate culture is going to have a great impact on him. Hence, it is the leader or entrepreneur’s responsibility to carry the torch, build healthy organizational/corporate culture and to make sure it has a positive impact on the employees.

Having a good corporate culture is beneficial to both the corporation itself and the society. For example, when organizations are emphasizing on work ethics, they are not just educating their employees for their own good, they are also doing good for the society. And besides the moral and ethical aspect, it is also important to build a good corporate culture, such that the employees would learn something from everyday business operations, no matter it is business knowledge or spiritual knowledge.

I still remember one guest speaker who came in to my lead300 class last semester, during his speech he said things like “when I was in HP…” and “in HP we do…” multiple times. I could clearly tell how HP’s corporate culture has affected his way of thinking, working and beyond even when he had left HP for quite some time already. I believe what he learned in HP are going to be valuable to him for his whole life. This is an example of how powerful corporate culture can be, and why building good corporate culture is so important.

Recall the fish movie we saw in class, the fish shop’s unique corporate culture influenced their employee to live their life with passion and be positive all the time. And this corporate culture even extended and influenced the customers of the fish shop.

In all, I think corporate culture is one thing that makes one enterprise valuable other than its economic values. And for a leader/entrepreneur building unique and good corporate culture is a good way to make a difference.