Organizational Culture vs. Culture

The Organizational culture is a set of values, beliefs, norms, procedures and experiences that configures an organization and acts as the “container” or regulator of all the conducts carried out between its members and the environment. The organizational culture is what identifies and differentiates a company from others as well as the one that determines the way that corporation should behave, think and operate going beyond its structural frame. Additionally, the organizational culture is not considered static or fixed; it changes constantly in order to adapt itself to the external environment and can also represent an important source of social construction inside the company.

In the other side, Culture is the integration of practices, traditions, social habits, values, religion and norms through which the society regulates the conduct of its members. At the same time it is important to say that culture is a way of life and is not equal in every society, it can varies from one community to another and it gives identity to an individual. In comparison with the organizational culture, the culture in its simple form is the one that is in charge of control the society as a whole while the first one works inside a specific group relating cultural variables to organizational ones (strategies, structures, management, personnel) in order to follow the course of the company and achieve the accomplishment of goals.