Cultures definitions

• "Culture is comprised of the assumptions, values, norms and tangible signs (artifacts) of organization members and their behaviors. Members of an organization soon come to sense the particular culture of an organization. Culture is one of those terms that's difficult to express distinctly, but everyone knows it when they sense it."

Organizational culture. (n.d.) In free managment library online. Retrieved from http://managementhelp.org


•" Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. "

Hofstede, G. (1997). Cultures and Organizations: Software of the mind. New York: McGraw Hill. Retrieved from: http://www.tamu.edu

•" a group of mutually interacting people with negotiated, shared values, understandings, norms, ideals, way of life, and way of looking at the world and their place in it."

Mazumdar Sanjoy. (n.d). in National research council Canada. Retrieved from
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca