Organizational Culture and Leadership

Organizational culture refers to culture in any type of organization including that of schools, universities, not-for-profit groups, government agencies, or business entities. In business, terms such as corporate culture and company culture are often used to refer to a similar concept. The term corporate culture became widely known in the business world in the late 1980s and early 1990s.28 Corporate culture was already used by managers, sociologists, and organizational theorists by the beginning of the 80s.30 The related idea of organizational climate emerged in the 1960s and 70s, and the terms are now somewhat overlapping,32 as climate is one aspect of culture that focuses primarily on the behaviors encouraged by the organization