Culture
In an organization Culture is the set of important beliefs that members of that organization share.
By the word culture refers to the most basic cause of a person’s wants and behavior. It is the set of basic values, perceptions, wants, and behaviors learned by a member of society from family and other important institutions.
In the anthropological sense a culture is usually defined as the shared beliefs, values, attitudes and expectations about appropriate ways to behave that are held by the members of a social group.
And to a psychologist culture is the unquestioned assumptions people share about the world, about the human condition, about what is right, wrong and normal, are perhaps even more important.
Webster Dictionary Meaning
- The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
- The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
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