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The term "culture" refers broadly to a relatively stable set of beliefs, values and behaviors commonly held by a society. Although it is derived from social anthropology as a framework for understanding "primitive" societies (Kotter and Heskett, 1992), the concept of culture has recently been widely used in the context of organizations. Organization's culture--the particular set of values, beliefs, customs and systems that are unique to that organization. Though Peters and Waterman's (1982) view that organizational culture …

…organizations in order to place people in a new organizational context which imposes new roles, relationships and responsibilities upon them. This, they believe, forces new attitudes and behaviors upon people. This view is also shared by Tom Peters (1993) who advocates rapid and complete destruction of existing hierarchical organization structures as a precursor to behavioral change. Culture is important, but another part of organization also can not be neglected, they have there position in the whole.