surrounding milieu. Kinds of Work CultureWork and organizational cultures are subsets of the larger societal culture. While each organization has its own work culture, two patterns are distinct: soft and synergetic, representing the extremes of a broadly conceived continuum of work. Soft work culture means that everybody in the organization is complacent enough and the motivation level of the employees to do something new is very less. The soft culture is not a desirable state of an organization in the synergetic work culture, socio-cultural values are utilized to mobilize and motivate manpower. If organizational culture is conducive to excellence at work, high productivity, the centrality of work in employees’ life space and a high quality of work life, the organization is said to have a work-conducive culture otherwise a non work-culture.If an organization enforces strong work norms, maintains strict work disciplines and makes profits, but neglects and exploits its human resources the organization is said to possess an amoral work-centric culture. The employees lack involvement, commitment and desire to do something innovative in this kind of culture.Similarly if an organization neglects the social needs of its employees in achieving technological excellence, it is said to be working under technocratic culture.The criteria which determines the centrality of work for an individual are job affect and job clarity, time to devote to work i.e. work pressure, job and life satisfaction, value addition from the job, peace of mind, working conditions, up-to-date technology, superior-subordinate relationship, reinforcement (reward for hard work), status/prestige associated with the position/designation, extent of responsibility and freedom for making decisions, security of job and last but not the least money. Work culture changes with the organization’s core activity The work culture present in heavy industries is significantly dif...
