Typologies of Organisational Culture

There are two popular of typologies of the organization culture:

The HANDY TYPOLOGY has been very influential among cultural scholar and suggest 4 types of culture;

•          Power culture: as a web with a person or small group of people at the centre. There are few rules and people tends to act politically and more to concerned about the end rather than means.
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•          Role culture  : characterized by the bureaucracies where rules, procedures and job descriptions tend to predominate.
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•          Task culture: characterized by the project or matrix organization that brings together the appropriate resources and competence required for effective team functioning.
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•          Person culture: characterized by the individual autonomy and collective action based on fulfilling individual self interest.

The Brown, Deal & Kennedy’s typology of culture