r harmony and tolerance as taught by an individual's religion helps maintain solidarity in an in-group.Because of very high rate of unemployment and low rate of spatial mobility in India, people seem to be complacent enough in their present jobs. Indian employees also seek high power needs. The factors like people’s aspirations to build a strong nation and catch up with the West in material affluence and inroads made by the Western values has proved to be helpful as well as harmful to the work culture in different organizations. Brief overview of emergence and changing of Work Culture in Indian OrganizationsThe British were the first to introduce the western type of public administration in India. The organizational structure, administrative procedures and work methods were all patterned after the British organization. The cultural preference for relationship orientation, which requires a superior to be nurturant and the subordinate to be dependent was never totally erased from the Indian psyche. The rapid expansion of industrial activities required a large-scale import of Western technology and work forms which were expected to contain Western work values. The work organizations were put into the service of national development with the twin goals of growth and social justice. The developmental roles were not congruent to economic objectives .The climate in many of the work organizations is still marked by bureaucratization, imperonalization, political interference, and the ethos of a welfare organization (more in public sector than in the private sector). With the recruitment of employees from broader spectrum of the society there has been greater penetration of social habits and cultural values into the fabric of the work organization.The emphasis on equitable distribution of wealth had its roots in the Indian cultural preference for harmony and sharing of wealth. In the highly heterogeneous and pluralistic social context of In...
