Essay - Infotech Pakistan Culture Organizational Culture, or Corporate Culture, Comprises the...

InfoTech PAKISTAN

CULTURE

***** culture, or c*****porate culture, comprises the attitudes, experiences, beliefs and values of an organization. It has been defined as "the specific collection ***** values and norms that are sh*****d by people and groups in an ***** ***** that control ***** way they *****teract with each other and ***** stakeholders outside the organization. In this paper, I will be discussing the ***** of an amazing small ***** called *****nfoTech based in Karachi, Pakistan. This organization came *****to limelight when IBM awarded it Partner ***** the year award in 2003.

Layers of Organizational Culture

The three fundamental layers of organizational culture are:

Observable Artifacts

At ***** more visible level, the culture is manifested and represented ***** ***** artifacts. These include acronyms, manner of dress, *****s, myths, stories, publ*****hed lists of *****, observable rituals, ceremonies decorations etc.

Dress Code at InfoTech

People at ***** ***** *****ed formally.

Awards

1)InfoTech Awarded as the Top IBM Business Partner for the year 2003

*****, for the third consecutive *****, ***** been recognized as top IBM Business Partner winning all ***** ***** c*****egories ***** the IBM ***** Units. ***** contribution awards for the three key area was for IBM Software, Enterprise Servers & Total Storage, and Personal Computing Division

2) People at InfoTech are awarded with extrinsic as well as intrinsic *****. They are awarded with praise, appreciation, recognition in addition to certain percentage of monetary target achieved

Success Stories

1) ***** Awarded as ***** Top IBM Business Partner for the year 2003

2) InfoTech Won Lenovo - Best Performance Award 2006

***** lists ***** values

********** values as stated on *****ir website: "our code of business ethics is built around Corporate Governance by "people ***** principles" through well-***** roles, and empowering people to perform as Resp*****sible Corporate Citizens.

Ceremonies and events

Example of one of events at InfoTech:

The first InfoTech Corporate Golf Outing took place on Saturday, December 16th in Royal Palm Golf Club & country club in Lahore. The event ***** a great success ***** thoroughly enjoyed by the participants.

Workplace

***** Karachi office ***** located in phase 1, Defence, considered a posh-*****rea.

The offices of InfoTech at Karachi are ***** on the ground and first floor with support team on the ***** floor and sales ***** on ***** *****.

Placing support team ***** the ground floor is one feature that differentiates InfoTech from other IT firms, where the ***** team has offices usually in some isolated, deserted part of the building. Support team offices on the ground floor next to entrance shows how InfoTech cares and attends to all of its employees.

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Espoused Values

These are explicitly stated values and ***** that ***** preferred by an org*****izati*****:

InfoTech espoused values are as follows: "our code of business ethics is built around Corporate Governance by "people ***** *****" through well-defined roles, ***** empowering people to perform ***** Responsible Corporate *****

Enacted Values

***** represent the values and norms ***** are actually exhibited or converted into employee behavi*****. Although one