Organizational culture creates a number of various concepts, strategies, and situations which affect every level of planning when it comes to any type of hierarchical institution. The implications of organizational structure and culture apply to companies, corporations, charitable organizations, governments, and even sports teams/organizations.

Organizational culture, and the organizational structure that both partially defines, and is partially defined by, that very culture. Understanding how the internal structure and culture operates, and machinery behind the scenes that runs it, will allow those within the organizational culture to organize and strengthen the good, cut away the bad, and actually manufacture an environment that breeds and encourages success among its members.

Why is the culture and the internal processes so important? Many leadership theorists and coaches have found that ineffective leadership often tends to be one of the major causes of an organization's diminishing and weakening. Even a government example from history can be ancient Rome. During a series of terrible emperors, the structure and culture was strong enough to often overcome it, even for decades at a time-but without strong top end leadership eventually the mid level governing and organizational culture collapsed, resulting in the eventual failure of the culture.

To be healthy for the long term, a corporation must have strong leadership and a strong organizational culture. Even though some of the strongest companies or organizations may be able to tread water for a long period of time, or even do well, if the culture starts to erode, it's only a matter of time until the larger structure collapses.

So if top leadership is so important, why does the rest of the organizational culture also have to be functional in order to have an efficient governing body? Great leadership is needed for an organization to have strong culture, but the reversal is also true. Even great organizational culture will eventually dull, then erode completely without strong leadership to help keep everything running smoothly.

eadership and organizational culture are seen by theorists and practicing business executives alike as being tightly intertwined. Leaders must have a deep understanding of the identity and impact of the organizational culture in order to understand what kind of management and adjustment is needed within the company, as well as knowing how to communicate their vision to the rest of the company.

The model and study of how organizational structure and organizational culture works makes the practical study of implications of organizational structure and culture important. From corporations to government to sports teams, the study of how structure and culture impacts the overall picture can show a better way to make an entity work. Use a sports team as an example: most teams who have the head coach as the GM don't do as well as the teams who split the duties between two individuals who can work together towards the same common goal.

This has shown that an excellent organizational structure with good personnel that has everyone looking at the same goal is better than excellent but conflicted personnel. Those are only a few of the implications that result from a close study of corporate culture and structure.