Human Behavior in Organisation: Corporate Culture

On the second day the subject for our class was Corporate Culture. As every CAN group has to come up with a presentation on the subject; our group went in a thinking mode on how to make the presentation more interesting and innovative rather than showing the slides and giving one more example on death by powerpoint. I came up with the idea of performing a skit on Corporate Culture through which most of the students will identify with the corporate culture they had previously experienced. I think the IDEO video and Prof. Coloma’s insistence on being innovative really helped me to come up with such an idea. I would also like to thank my CAN group of being receptive and open to such a weird thing and backing the idea completely. The way our CAN group performed the skit got the audience engrossed and laughing all the way. Everybody loved the part of Joh where he was the ideal boss, who encourages innovation, tries to emotionally engage the employees, is concerned about employee’s growth and reciprocates to their intangible needs. The skit was an instant hit but what shocked me was the reluctance of many of our batch mates to believe that such a corporate culture can in fact be made possible in the real world. They thought that it was too good to be true. I think the reason for such a response was the shear absence of such a corporate culture in the real world in most of the organizations. Till the other day I also thought that such a corporate culture cannot be implemented in the real world, but watching the IDEO video made me realize the power of being open to change and making things change rather than waiting for things to change. Prof. Coloma was highly supportive of our Idea and explained to the class the difference between the normal practices in the Corporate World and the defining moments which tests the responsible people in the organization (especially Managers) for their ability to take judgments which may seem to be against the status quo and irrational but are fair and rational for that particular situation. These are the differentiating values of an Organizations Corporate Culture.