Important Points for IC 90 - Human Resource Management (HRM) Exam
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Organisation Development is defined as a systemactic, integrated, organisation-wide effort, planned and managed from the top, aimed to increase organisational effectiveness and health using knowledge of behavioural science.
The expression "climate" is used to refer to the ways in which members of a group experience the working environment.
The word Culture implies an aggregate of values and practices and belief systems.
Values are the standards of rights and wrons, because of which there are ways in which things are doen. These differ from one organisation to another.
For values to become cultural dimesions, all members would have to subscribe to them, either consciously or subconsciously, and the values would exert a strong influence on the what and how people do at work, solving problems, making decisions, experimenting, innovating, conforming. On the aggregate, culture is the way they do it.