types of business cultures

There are various types of business cultures.  They are as follows:

1.      Customer- driven culture.

2.     Task Culture.

3.     Innovative culture.

4.     Role culture.

5.     Risk-averse Culture.

6.     Competitive culture.

7.     Positive Culture.

8.     Bureaucratic Culture.

9.     Negative culture.

10.                          Power Culture.

11.                          Person Culture.

1.      Customer-driven Culture:  Everybody in the organization has only one target. They want customer satisfaction as the primary way of making profit.  They want to satisfy the customer so that he/she can buy their services/product again and again in the future.  So from the top ranking manager to the ordinary worker, everybody has the same goal.

2.     Task Culture:  The employees show flexibility in following the order of their manager.  They want their duties to be completed.  Everybody in the organization is united and has the same objective and works  as a team to complete any assignment.

3.     Innovative Culture:  The employees have a lot of enthusiasm about the work.  They are ready to take risk for the achievement of their goal.  They have a lot of energy which drives them to achieve their goal.  They are very, very focused.

4.     Role Culture:  The employee has the power and exercises his authority for the role played by him in that organization.  His power to execute any task depends on the position he/she holds in an organization.

5.     Risk-averse Culture:  The management has the desire to change its policies and this culture of risk-taking improves the future work environment of the organization.

6.     Competitive Culture : This culture encourages the employees to work better and the rivalry and competition is encouraged by the management.  The competitive spirit will bring the best quality in the employees. 

7.     Positive Culture : Everybody in the company cooperates with each other and work as a team.  The advantage of this culture is the change itself.  The change is not regarded as harmful for the progress of the organization.

8.     Bureaucratic Culture : This culture encourages its followers to obey a set of rules.  They want them to adhere to it strictly.  They want their followers to follow only their channels of communication.

9.     Negative Culture : This culture creates an atmosphere of pessimism.  Neither the employee can trust their manager, nor can the manager trust the employees.  This mutual suspicion creates distrust among them and causes conflict regularly.

10.              Power Culture:  This culture strongly encourages the employees to follow their policies, terms and conditions.  All the members are directed to work according to the terms by a handful of people.

11.            Person Culture:  The manager and the employee work together as a team and value each other’s opinion.  This mutual trust helps the organization function successfully.