Organizational culture is the shared values and beliefs that underlie a company’s identity (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013, p. 63). The culture of my current employer, in my opinion, is rather unique. The culture is about warmth, care, and integrity. When the company was established, the top management team developed what we call concept essence and cultural values. These cultural values and concept essence are the beliefs by which we do business, how we treat our customers, and our co-workers. These espoused values are examined every year to make sure they are still being followed, and if not how can it be fixed. In eight years of working for this company, in many different positions, the culture has remained them same. While doing some research for this discussion post I came across a news article where the CEO is quoted saying, “People are always asking me, ‘What’s new and different for Panera?’ You know what I want to say? ‘Nothing. We’re doing the same thing. We just want it to be better.” In my experience, this is exactly correct. …show more content…
I believe the company that I work for has a low-context culture. The reasons I think I work in a low-context culture are that we have written standards and procedures for everything in operations. Also, completing your duties/tasks on time is essential. If your work is not done on time, there could detrimental effects in all areas of the