Cultural Aspects of the Business
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007A company’s culture is the set of priorities that it gives to different things. Sometimes these priorities are made explicit: in a company’s formal mission statement, for example, or in the structure of the organisation and the power given to different departments and functions. Sometimes they are implicit: what the Financial Times once called “the large number of unspoken assumptions and beliefs which managers in the organisation share about ‘the way we do things around here’”.