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1Organisational Structure and Culture:

Organizational structure is basically the hierarchical division according to levels within an organization. It
may be flat or high depending on the size of the organization. Organizational culture on the other hand
is the sum total of an organizations philosophy, expectations, experiences which is often expressed
through its interactions with the outside world .Organizational culture rests on the attitudes, beliefs,
principles as well as the written and unwritten rules which have been developed through time.
There may be different types of organizational structure Tall, Flat or matrix. The tall structure is one with
many different hierarchical levels. These types of structures are complex and are generally slow to
respond to market changes. The flat structure is one where the middle level of management is almost
absent facilitating direct contact between the top level and base level employees. On the other hand
matrix type of structure involves managing via multiple reporting line .This helps in management of
cross business group functions and so on.
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The management of Human resources within the organizations has been a big concern both for
HR managers as well as the organizational policy makers. On order to have a satisfied,
motivated, stress free performing workforce the organization must strive for consistency in its
structure, system, people as well as on the . Cultures within an organization has positive and
negative impact on all aspects such as job satisfaction and employee motivation through the
daily proceedings. It is found that structure, leadership, managerial practices and the decision
processes positively impacts on the employee motivation. On the other hand excess
centralization, no role in decision-making, little or no opportunity for growth, and high degree of
specialization tends to effect employee motivation negatively. For a decent amount of
satisfaction what is necessary is adequate amount of training , decentralization, kind of an open
encouraging culture, less rigid structure, participative management, autonomy in work welfare
opportunity for personal growth and development, promotion and recognition, supervisory
support, employee empowerment, interesting challenging work , good communication, goal
congruence, warmth with variety have positive impact on job satisfaction. Formal
communication, lack of information, lack of professional help, job difficulty, lack of adequate
organizational policy and administration, lack of supervisory support are few things which
negatively effects on the employees and has harmful consequences on the performances.