Ch. 5 culture and organizations

I suppose I never thought as such a thing as "organizational culture". Like the author writes, I always defined culture as a part of an heritage or ethnic background of a group of people. Or even religion, but I never thought of business' or companies having a culture. I see how the possibility of an organizational culture falls unfer a metaphorical family unit and how those guidelines which define culture can fall into the same category. Like a famiy culture, companies have a set of ways and a mission statement which they always have agreed upon to abide by. I aslo took notice of the cultural elements used to describe culture such as metaphors, rituals, stories, artifacts and etc... However I just feel like this is attempting to give a place of business such a strong background and I just don't feel that culture is necessarily the correct word to use in association with an business. Maybe that is just my opinion though.