‘OCTAPAC’ CULTURE OF AN ORGANISATION

The term OCTAPAC has been coined to denote the characteristics of HRD climate which include: openness, confrontation, trust, autonomy, proaction, authenticity and collaboration.

OCTAPAC Culture is associated to the following from first word to the last word:

§ Openness’: The term ‘openness’ refers to “freedom to express ideas, opinions views”, “frankness”, “outspoken”, straightforwardness”. If a term is to be effective, then its members need to be able to express their views, their differences of opinion, interests, and problems without fear.

§  Confrontation: The term confrontation refers to “conflict”, “encounter”, “dispute”, “estrangement” to evolve effective and efficient suggestions and solutions to a given problem. There is a dire need to confront problems and issues rather than avoid them.

§  Trust: Trust means “belief”, “confidence”, “faith”. Organisation employees people who come from different background, values and expectations and the perception of each one of them are different from others and the work-life involves them in many complex relationship with others. With trust people can talk freely about their fears and problems and receive from others the help which they need to be more effective.

§   Autonomy: The autonomy refers to “freedom”, “independence”. Freedom to do a thing in the way one wants, trends to act as a morale booster. Every individual has his own way of doing things, it is the job of his superior to ensure that creativity in the individual/group is not discouraged while working for achieving objectives.

§    Proaction: The term “Pro-action” generally refers to “planning in advance”, “lead from the front”,” the state of alertness/preparedness”. As it is often said “prevention is better than cure”, the word pro-action means that the leadership/topmanagement should be capable of forecasting, predicting projecting, anticipating things well in advance and plan accordingly to meet any eventuality at any given time.

§ Authenticity: The term “authenticity” refers to “factual”, “legitimate”, “actual”. Every institution has a goal and various departments are used in the process to achieve the objectives through their varied and specialised skills. The method of achieving objectives through their varied and specialised skills. The method of achieving objectives is more important than that of extent of achievement.

•   Collaboration: The term Collaboration refers to “Cooperation” “participation”, “teamwork”, “association”. Cooperation means working together. It implies that individual are committed and willing to be involves in the work they do and that they are ready to share their skills and information  with the rest of the employees, knowing that the others will reciprocate.