Assignment: Organizational Culture

Assignment: Organizational Culture

Assignment: Organizational Culture

Week 2 discussion Discussion Prompt 1 How is organizational culture and the SIPOC tool utilized in project planning? Describe the importance of understanding the strategic vision and alignment of the organization where the system change occurs and how this affects information technology implementation. Discussion Prompt 2 State two major theories and models underpinning informatics and apply one of the theories to a clinical system problem in a healthcare organization. Justify your choice of this theory to the selected problem.

Ravasi and Schultz (2006) characterise organizational culture as a set of shared assumptions that guide behaviors. It is also the pattern of such collective behaviors and assumptions that are taught to new organizational members as a way of perceiving and, even thinking and feeling. Thus organizational culture affects the way people and groups interact with each other, with clients, and with . In addition, organizational culture may affect how much employees Organizational culture encompasses  and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of a business .^[] The organizational culture influences the way people interact, the context within which knowledge is created, the resistance they will have towards certain changes, and ultimately the way they share (or the way they do not share) knowledge. Organizational culture represents the collective values, beliefs and principles of organizational members.^[] It may also be influenced by factors such as history, type of product, market, technology, strategy, type of employees, , and national culture. Culture includes the organization’s , values, norms, systems, symbols, language, assumptions, environment, location, beliefs and habits.^[