Organizational Culture Values and Behaviors

Question: Discuss about the Organizational Culture Values and Behaviors. Answer: Introduction: Organizational culture includes values and behaviors that help in building the social and psychological environment of an organization. Culture of any organization includes the expectations of organization, experience, philosophy and values that keep the organization together, and this can be evaluate by the image of organization in outside world. Any organizational culture is depending on the attitude, beliefs, and customs that were developed with time. Organizational culture is that way through which members of the organization relate with each other, with their work or with outside world. Following are the factors which define organization culture: The way in which organization conducts its business, how organization treats its employees, customers and community. Freedom available for making decisions in organization, developing new and creative ideas, and express personal views. Flow of information through the hierarchy of organization. Commitment of employees towards the collective objective of an organization (ITIM, n.d.). The police department of UAE is the most progressive and forward thinking department. Department comprise almost 15000 officers who have high education standards. In UAE, the Federal Ministry of Interior (Ministry of Interior) controls the police general directorates in all of the 7 emirates. Police general directorates of each emirate maintain the police department of their own emirates, and supervise police stations (UAE, n.d.). The main aim of police department in UAE is to prevent the orders and crimes, and protect the human rights of the citizens of UAE. Police departments main aim is to protect the dignity and integrity of human being from Arbitrary or Unlawful Deprivation of Life, Disappearance, and from other inhuman behavior. The main of values of police department in UAE are: Integrity and honesty: police department of UAE focus on maintaining the integrity and honesty of the department, and also focus on preventing the human rights. Justice: police department of UAE always give fair services, and equal treatment to all segments of society. Professionalism: police department of UAE commit to perform all the duties, and also provide services by following the relevant standards set up by the government of UAE. Effective Communication: police department of UAE ensures effective communication with the public and private sectors to achieve the set objectives and goals. Excellence: police department of UAE promise to achieve excellence in all their works, and also ensures that their all activities are carried out in efficient and effective way and recognize their achievements (Abu Dhabi Police GHQ, n.d.). Organization culture means relation of organization with outside world, and in this the basic factor of relation with outside world is trust and honesty. Therefore, it is clear from the values and principles of police department in UAE that their organization culture is depend on the values and principles they define. In UAE, we can clearly see the unity between the UAE emirates because of which UAE people feels proud. However this unity is represented through six national symbols and emblems. Organization culture of police department gets their strength from these two symbols that are: UAE Flag: The most common symbol of seven emirates is national flag of UAE. The colors of the flag are not chosen randomly but they represent the different traits of the country. The colors green, white, red and black are the colors which represent unity between the Arabs, and they are the Pan-Arab colors. White color of the UAE flag represents peace and purity, green color represents Prosperity and success, red color shows sacrifice and power, and whereas black shows dignity and authority. All the traits shown by the flag of UAE are also the basic values of police department of UAE whether directly or indirectly. People of UAE treat their flag with honor, and respect their flag like any other nations do. Police department of UAE develop the same objectives as conveyed by the colors of UAE (Gulf News, 2016). Falcon: one of the most pastimes in UAE is falconry, and during the Arabic history it played a huge part because of which this bird is recognized as national bird. This bird symbolizes strength, courage, pride, grace, and force. Therefore we can say that symbols of this bird also strengthen the culture of police department of UAE. Oryx: as police department of UAE is the symbol of strength pride and dignity, the color of oryx shows these same symbols that is bold white color. For the people of UAE Arabian Oryx are of great pride, and these Arabian Oryx are known for its whiteness and cleanliness (Gulf News, 2016). References: ITIM, Organizational Culture, Retrieved on 28th October 2016 from: https://geert-hofstede.com/organisational-culture.html. UAE, Respect for Human Rights, Retrieved on 28th October 2016 from: https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/160079.pdf. Abu Dhabi Police GHQ, Values, Retrieved on 28th October 2016 from: https://www.adpolice.gov.ae/en/aboutadpolice/adpvalues.aspx. Gulf news, (2016),What does the UAE flag mean, Retrieved on 28th October 2016 from: https://gulfnews.com/guides/life/community/what-does-the-uae-flag-mean-1.1608733. Gulf news, (2016), the 6 UAE national symbols, Retrieved on 28th October 2016 from: https://gulfnews.com/guides/entertainment/art-culture/the-6-uae-national-symbols-1.1396338.