The organization mission focus on high quality furniture and at accessible prices. Organization culture offer customer service with integration methods of approach that builds the relationship with customers. Employees work together as teams, culture focuses at adopting employees who appreciate teamwork. Ikea is a growing organization, thus culture that is not only engaging but also the culture that questions and provides solution for problems and uphold dialogue leaderships promoting innovation and creativity (Jonsson and Kalling, 2007). The culture also uphold communication that promote sense of responsibility and commitment. Ikea culture upholds diversity among the employees and different way of doing things, it accommodates both gender, men and women in the management and group leading, with their contributions toward growth. Ikea culture is simple and has high level of informality, the culture help works done in simple way with humility. The Ikea organization focuses to reach many people through the furnishing program.
Culture changes aims at responding to changes in the organization environment. For example, to improve the performance of the organization in terms of profits, investment returns and standard of customers, to respond to changes like market changes, political, and legal environment restructuring of the organization, leadership changes, demographic changes and economics (Kling and Goteman, 2003).
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Finally, the culture may change to address illegal and unethical activity within and around organization like internal misunderstanding, employee’s turnover, innovation devalued, inconsistency of leadership and, decision making style (Robbins, 2014)
Ikea culture focuses at quality service at lower price, therefore culture may change to respond to issue affecting quality and prices like the customer needs and market needs, population need and the leadership style adopted in the new place. Culture shall not change much just some adjustment based on customer need, market and demographic needs. May change the designs, features of their product and, way of conducting furnishing programs, prices due to economic status of the population there.
References
Jonsson, A., & Kalling, T. (2007). Challenges to knowledge sharing across national and intra-organizational boundaries: case studies of IKEA and SCA Packaging. Knowledge Management Research & Practice , 5 (3), 161-172.
Kling, K., & Goteman, I. (2003). IKEA CEO Anders Dahlvig on international growth and IKEA's unique corporate culture and brand identity. Academy of Management Perspectives , 17 (1), 31-37.
Stephens Robbins, McGraw Hill (2014) Organization behavior. Organizational culture.
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