Anthropological understanding of organizational culture
is something that results from the interaction and is
generated at all levels of the organization suggesting that
while managers can influence culture, they cannot actually
create or direct it because the generation of organizational
culture is, by nature, not restricted to the domain
of management. If culture is created on an ongoing
basis throughout an organization, then managers lack the
total control of the interactive and interpretive processes
that would be necessary at all levels of the organization
to consciously create and direct an organization’s culture.
An anthropological perspective on organizational culture,
with its focus on interpretive processes, suggests that
managers face difficulty in explicit attempts to change
organizational culture because they cannot completely
control the complex interactions that produce culture
throughout an organization.