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What is the difference between weak organizational culture and strong organizational culture?

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Question added by Mostafa Abdo , Senior Infrastructure and Security Architect , Devoteam
Date Posted: 2013/09/24
Amir Mohamed
by Amir Mohamed , IT Team Leader , The Xnet Systems

A strong organizational culture works like a strong social glue, which bonds members of an organization together through shared goals. This builds loyalty and commitment among the group and makes them less likely to leave their tight knit organization.

Although organizations with strong cultures experience less turnover, it doesn't mean that a strong culture is better than a weak culture in every instance. A strong culture is difficult to change in an organization and can stifle innovation, because members of the organization are used to doing their jobs exactly the same way.

Weak cultures can be advantageous for organizations that benefit from independent thought and innovation by their members. In an unstable environment, organizations with weak cultures often function better than organizations with strong cultures, because they are much more adaptable to change. In order for an organization to succeed, the culture of that organization must fit the environment in which it operates.

Alaa Hussein
by Alaa Hussein , Program Manager , MEMECS

The differences between weak and strong organizational culture:

A key consequence of weak culture is that there is greater need for procedures, policies and bureaucracy in order to get things done in the desired way, with in turn can add substantially to organisational costs.

A key benefit of a strong culture is that there is less need for detailed policies and procedures because the "way things are done around here" is well understood and accepted.

Some research by Sorenson (2002) looked into the relationship between the strength of culture and business performance. The research found that strong cultures were best able to deliver a successful strategy in fairly stable operating conditions. 

waek organizational culture = low quality 

 

Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein
by Mohammad Tohamy Hussein Hussein , Chief Executive Officer & ERP Architect , Egyptian Software Group

The organizational culture is made by the organizational leadership. A strong (positive) culture promotes the organizationa's values and supports teams efforts to achieve organizational goals. A weak (negative) culture usually results from lack of organizational leadership and usually diminish the team sperit and dilutes common goals to be superceeded by personal ones.

Ajikumar Gopinathan Nair
by Ajikumar Gopinathan Nair , Technical Consultant in Clean Kerala Co Ltd , Clean Keral Company Ltd

an organisational culture that is prone to avail opportunities by maximising its strength and is aware of its weakness to ward off the threats can be termed as a strong organisational culture.

Muhammad Imran
by Muhammad Imran , Agriculture Farm officer , Nishat Agriculture Farming (Pvt) Limited

according to me in waek organizational culture following factor involves.

people d,not follow the rules strictly

absense of policies according to the requirement of time

absence of new technology use in an organization

and vice versa for strong organization