Organisational Culture

Do you think that the concept "organisational culture" is a useful one in the real world? If so, why? If not, why not? ABSTRACT The concept of culture is in itself a social concept. Therefore it follows that the concept of organisational culture should be viewed as the social context of an organisation and is an interpretation of the way the organisation behaves. However, according to Iain Mangham (Power and performance in Organisations, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1986, pp.1-9.), there is no such thing as organisational behaviour, there is only the collective behaviour of individuals. Mangham says "Terms such as group and organisation are simply abstractions from the behaviour of individuals, summaries of scores of pieces of individual behaviour distributed in a particular time and space". However, "organisational culture" is a scientifically accepted concept used to define and described the collective individual behaviour within the organisation. This collective behaviour of indivi...