Task back to top ESSAY : Organisational Culture Part A:What are the essential elements of a strong organisational culture? How can leadership ensure an inclusive and multicultural organisation? What...

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ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE AND ROLE OF LEADERSHIP ON IT    9
ESSAY: ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE
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Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Part A    3
Essential Elements of Strong Organizational Culture    3
Role of Leadership in Managing Inclusive and Multicultural Organisation    4
Recommendations with Theory    5
Part B    6
Multiculturalism in Coles Group, Australia    6
Example of Leadership and Management influencing Multiculturalism in Coles    6
Conclusion    6
References    8
Introduction
    Organizational culture can be defined as the culture formed by the interaction of people from different social, economic and psychological background by sharing their thoughts, language, customs, belief and values in an organization. This culture interprets the organizational system, symbols, norms, values and vision. Organizational culture is association of many different cultures exists in a workplace.
Part A
Essential Elements of Strong Organizational Culture
    Organizational culture is a principle belief, on which organization performs in every sector of business. As suggested by Belias et al. (2017), every organization has its unique personality, which is simply termed as culture. Organisation culture helps the organisation to adapt the external environment and also enable them to manage internal resources such as human resources. A strong hold of organizational culture is necessary for any organization to hold their employees together and to perform well (Manojlovich & Ketefian, 2016). There are several elements influence the organizational culture and play crucial role in making it strong.
As suggested by Laforet (2016), organisation culture is now used as a strategy in business to improve the human capital. It explained that culture motivates the people and help in maximising the human capital. The elements that influences the organizational culture are communication, physical environment, customs and norms, ceremonies and events, rules and policies, goals and measurement, rewards and recognition, respect, teamwork, accountability, decision making, management behavior, learning and development, and organization structure (Serrat, 2017). Identification of these elements helps in implementing necessary changes to maintain organizational culture. The collective role of these elements is necessary to have strong organizational culture. Individual element does not show any great influence.
    The communication plays important role in building strong organizational culture. Presence of comfortable communication among the employees and top leader, and communication among team and interdepartmental teams make the organization trustworthy among employees (Oetzel, 2017). The occurrence of transparency among the employees reduces the conflict occur in organization. Companies whose communication channels are weak, usually finds it difficult to earn trust of their people and makes it impossible to manage the people. As suggested by Korner, Wirtz, Bengel and Goritz (2015), communication in organization is necessary for job satisfaction and it is a precondition of the teamwork. Organizational culture is a glue to hold any organization and communication is the main approach of the culture.
    Reward-recognition, teamwork and training development are important dimension of organization culture improve the commitment to employees towards organization. As mentioned by Ramdhani, Ramdhani and Ainissyifa (2017), these factors help in achieving the organizational goals and improve the performance of the organization. Reward in the form of increment in salary, bonuses and promotions encourage employees to perform well. Recognition of employees doing good work and giving them certain status motivates all the employees to deliver quality work and they can relate with organisation as their own. Rewards describe that organisation is paying attention to the effort taken by the employees and they are appreciating those efforts.
    Learning and development is necessary to gain the upper hand in corporate competition. As suggested by Evers, Van der Heijden and Kreijns (2016), it is a way to...