Modern organizations, both complicated and complex. operate in an economic climate of turbulence and rapid change. And Today~s healthcare environment is changing, driven by demographic, environmental, social, political and technological forces. In actu~~l practice, the organization usually depend on several factors such as economic state of organization, managerial strategies, a synthesis of several theories that reflect individual biases, specific circumstances, and practical realities. These rapidly changing healthcare environment and professional nursing practice need a strategy for the organizational development and goal attainment. An understanding of organizational culture could help managers enhance or expand their management strategy, thus increasing the probability of their success in the organization.
Organizational culture is an abstract, yet potent managerial concept. With roots in several disciplines, several perspectives and definitions of organizational culture have emerged.
The concept of organizational culture has been rapidly introduced into the academic and organizational world, with the much attention to the excellent companies that have continued rapid grow th despite the overall world economic recession in the late of 1970s.
Organizational culture is the combination of the symbols, language, assumptions, and behaviors that overtly manifest an organizaion~s norm and values. It is the taken-for-granted and shared meanings people assign to their social surroundings that can have- a profound effect on an organizaitonal decision making and performance.
For attaining a organizational goal and develop-ing organization, it is necessary to put emphasis on developing organizational culture. It has to set organizational culture well understood by its members as an instrument to achieve the organizational goals. Both Manager and staff can focus and act on the values identified. Also, managers will exhibit better decision making capabilities because they are guided by perception of the organizational values. Therefore, understanding of organizational cultu;e could give a strategy for organizational development that assist hiring personnel, orienting new comers, facilitating organizational change and promoting learning and so on.
But, their is few study on nursing organizational culture in Korea. Moreover they have not had a clear definition of Korean nursing organizational cultun=. Therefore, it is necessary to lay down definition of Korean nursing organizational culture and fine out real factor of Korean nursing culture. For defining a definition of Korean nursing organizational culture, this study assessed several definitions of organizational culture, factors of culture. types ~~f culture, and functions of culture through book review.
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