Culture is the systems of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people. Culture is thea collective programming of the mindminds which distinguishes the members of one human group from another. It is the learned ways in which a society understands, decides, and communicates.

Culture is the sum of the learned behavior of a group of people which is generally considered to be the tradition of that personthe group and is transmitted from generation to generation. Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.

The concept of organizational culture comprises aspects of organizational values, shared beliefs and assumptions, behavioral norms, and expectations aspects. Organizational culture plays an important role in the matching process between individuals and their organizations.

Person-organization fit is defined as “the congruence between patterns of organizational values and patterns of individual values”values.” It has been understood that important outcomes like employee turnover and commitment are affected by the match between thean organization’s values and an individual’s values.

In the modern world, as opportunities increase for people and their cultures to interact, the need for effective conflict resolution has never been more critical or more difficult, yet. Meanwhile, experts in a variety of disciplines are engaged in seemingly endless philosophical arguments about the validity of culture as a concept, diverting their energies from what seem to be more productive endeavors, such as developing new techniques for conflict resolution that could lead to a more peaceful world. Adopting a more flexible definition for culture, one that recognizes individual variances and the realities of the modern world –, would be a first step in achieving this worthy goal.