INTRODUCTION

Modern organizations have grown many folds in defining

techniques to study and improve their functioning. Organization
culture is an aspect that impacts every organization's functioning.
Different kinds of organizations need a different kind of culture to
be setup. For example in an R & D company the culture must
support innovation where as in an army the culture must support
authority and power.
 CULTURE
Culture can be defined in numerous ways. In the words of
anthropologist E.B. Taylor, it is “that complex whole which
includes knowledge , belief, art, morals , law, custom and
any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a
member of society.
Culture has been called "the way of life for an entire
society." As such, it includes codes of manners, dress,
language, religion, rituals, art.
OCTAPACE STANDS FOR
Openness

Experimentation Collaboration

Confrontation OCTAPACE Trust

Autonomy Authenticity

Pro- Active
 • It refers to the comparative openness in the system which influences the designs of
human resource management. Organizations are classified continuum from completely
Openness open to close ones.

• It involves working collectively for a common cause to achieve a common goal.

individuals instead of solving problems by themselves share the concerns and prepare
Collaboration strategies to work out a successful plan by planning and implementing actions.

• In this organizational factor is considered to be eminent one for openness and HRD
management. If the trust level is low the dimensions of human resources are seen with
Trust suspicion and so the credibility of system also goes down.

• It refers to basically underlying trust. this is the willingness of person to acknowledge

and experience the feelings, thus it is the narrowest gap between the stated values and
Authenticity the actual behavior.
 • It is anticipation of issues in advance of any undertaking conflict and responding to the needs of future
in fact of creating the future.
Proactive

• Autonomy is the willingness to use power without fear and helping other to do same. Basically
Autonomy is all about Using and giving freedom to plan and act in one’s own sphere.
Autonomy

• This refers to the facing the problems and not escaping from it. This is exploration of a problem and
then working it jointly and collectively to find a suitable and appropriate solution.
Confrontation

• It emphasizes on giving significance and value importance to innovating and trying out new ways of
dealing with problems in organization. A profile of an organization on experimenting helps to decide
Experimenting what elements of human resource system should be introduced in sequences in organizations.
WHAT IS OCTAPACE CULTURE
OCTAPACE Culture includes
ethics, values, beliefs, attitudes,
norms, ethos, climate, environment
and culture. A culture with
OCTAPACE values has the greater
chance of achieving high
involvement and satisfaction, team
work, growth and free flow of
communication within the
organization The most important
aspect of organizational culture are
the values it practices.
 Types of Culture
There are different types of culture followed in which the business
leaders are vital to create and communicate their interactions at the
workplace. however the relationship between the leadership and the
different cultures followed by the individuals. The behavioral
framework, in turn ensure the higher level of job satisfaction,
leadership, perspectives and workplace relationships amongst each
other.
Person culture and market culture
It depends upon the members
of an organization business in
which they show the
treatment of employees,
customers and community
which are the strong aspects
of the business. Person
culture is based upon the
horizontal structure in which
each individual is seen more
valuable more than the
organizations.
Adaptive and culture adhocracy
Power culture, role culture, and hierarchy
The freedom is allowed in culture
decision making, Personal
expression ,developing new
ideas which are vital parts of
adaptive and adhocracy
cultures. Adhocracy cultures
relates to focusing on risk
taking, innovation and doing
things first.
Power cultures is referred to
flow of information through
organizational hierarchy and
system. These makes rapid
decisions and controls the
strategy. These are the actual
leaders of the organization
who are decisive and
monitors the working
environment.
Task culture
It aims towards collective
objectives aiming to increase
commitment of employees. In
task culture, teams are formed
to solve particular problems
with help of expert members.
A matrix structure is common
type in which cross functional
reporting is done to get better
task and organization
importance.
Organizational culture
Organization culture is a system of shared assumptions, values, and
beliefs which governs how people behave in organizations. These shared
values have a strong influence on the people in the organization and
dictate how they dress, act, and perform their job.

According to NEEDLE (2004), Organizational culture represents the

collective values, beliefs and principles of organizational members and is
a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, strategy,
type of employees, management style, and national culture.
 TYEPS OF CULTURE
Organizational Values And Climate :Can be it defined as shared perceptions or prevailing organizational norms
for conducting workplace activities. Organizational climate influences to a great extent the performance of the
employees because it has a major impact on motivation and job satisfaction of individual employees.

Workforce Harassment: Employees can be harassed in quite a variety of ways at work. Sexual harassment need
to be paid more attention non sexual types of harassment which can also occur should be taken care of largely.

Employee Engagement: Employee engagement is the degree of being mentally and emotionally invested towards
the organization's overall commitment which contributes towards overall success .

Organizational Resilience :It is the ability of an organization to anticipate, prepare for, respond and adapt to
incremental change and sudden disruptions in order to survive and prosper.

Organizational commitment :Describes the level of attachment a member has towards his organization. A
leading model of organizational commitment is the 3-component model that argues that organizational
commitment is a factor of three components that interact with each other.
Gap Analysis that Affect Octapace
Employee
engagement -
Organizational through abiding
Resilience the
organizational
Job satisfaction is a strategic values of the
of employees imperative for an institutions.
Organization and recreational organization to
resilence activities given prosper in
HRD climate
time to time to today’s dynamic,
and capacity to make the
and interconnected
recover from working more
autonomous world.
Organizational failures and agile.
commitment of working coping up with
Overcoming employees style with adaptive change
paradigms towards working, collaboration and of environment.
autonomy too for the level of team efforts
managing their awareness that
own money. So, contribute
they end up willingness and
working for motivational
money and spirit to own the
money does not responsibility of
do any good work.
work for them.
Organizational culture is not stagnant. So the members of organization
develops the shared belief of right and mutual concerns with every people
working. When those beliefs and assumptions lead to less than successful
results, the culture must evolve for the organization to stay relevant in a
changing environment. Changing organizational culture is not an easy
undertaking, employees resists the change of culture .Thus, it is the duty of
leaders to convince their employees of the benefits of change and show
through collective experience with new behaviors that the new culture is the
best way to operate to yield success.