As one of the key 'stable factors', culture within an organization is playing a critical role in the organization's everyday operations. Although the culture literature has at times focused on the culture of an organization as shared basic assumptions (Schein, 1985) , or as metaphors within organizations (Morgan, 1986 (Morgan, , 1997 , it is not sufficient to attempt to understand and measure them. This paper explores organizational culture in general, some definitions and implications of

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... zational culture are reviewed from different perspectives, and Cliffe's cultural themes are addressed with the use of Scholes' cultural web and Hofstede's onion diagram model of organizational culture.