Topic > Organizational climate vs. organizational culture

Compare and contrast organizational (command) climate with organizational culture. Leaders influence the organizational climate and can change the leadership culture. However, to achieve this they must first understand the existing organizational culture within which they operate. Culture is the characteristic behavior of a particular group. In an organizational context, leaders must be aware of these cultural factors in the context that is sensitive to the different backgrounds of team members to make the most of their talent. There are three levels of culture. The first level is the artifacts. This is the surface level. It includes all the phenomena that are seen, heard and felt when meeting a new group with an unfamiliar culture. The second level is espoused values. These reflect the original values. The third level is the basic underlying assumptions. These are what were once hypotheses, supported only by an intuition or value, are gradually treated as reality. Climate, on the other hand, is a prevailing public opinion trend or attitude in a given organization at a given time. Comparing Culture, like climate, provides leaders and followers with a context in which they interact. In turn, both culture and climate create a positive organizational environment that allows members to feel better about themselves, make stronger commitments, and produce better work. Furthermore, culture and climate can positively or negatively influence the achievement of the organization's mission based on the attitudes shared by its members. In both cases, the shared attitude of members plays a fundamental role in the level of motivation and commitment throughout the organization. Additionally, culture and climate can provide an environment... middle of paper... approach, anticipation, operational scope, culmination, organization of operations, forces and functions. Among these elements the final state, the center of gravity and the stress line are particularly useful for the development of the operational approach. The fuel for operational art is the commander's experience, intellect, creativity, intuition, education, and judgment. However, operational design requires identifying the problem, achieving a common understanding of the situation, and continuously and recursively refining the situational understanding. Although operational design supports operational art with a general methodology, by definition, both differ in that operational art is an application that essentially uses cognitive faculties, while operational design is a process that integrates cognitive faculties, tools and systems to conceive and build. viable approach.