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Young Zoologists Association Case Study

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This report present a study about the Culture and Leadership of Young Zoologists’ Association of Sri Lanka (YZA). The core objective of this study is to identify how the Culture and the Leadership affect to the organization.
To understand the core objective, core objective has been divided into sub categories such as, Layers of the organizational culture, How culture embedded in Membership, How culture embedded in Rules and Regulations, How culture embedded in their decision making procedure, Leadership in the Association, Leadership role in creating, developing and changing culture, Long term oriented culture and Innovative activities.
Young Zoologists’ Association is non-government, non-profit and voluntary youth organization based at the National Zoological Gardens at Dehiwala, Sri Lanka. Young …show more content…

Layers of Culture in Young Zoologists’ Association

3.1. Artifacts of Young Zoologists’ Association

Culture is manifested at different layers as artifacts, values and beliefs and basic underlying assumptions, artifacts are the outer layer of the culture. Artifacts include logo, uniform, architecture of its physical environment, language, artistic creations and technology, which are visible structures and processes. In Young Zoologists’ Association there are artifacts, which are visible to the members of the association as well as external parties.
Logo
Logo is one artifact of Young Zoologists’ Association. It includes an animal (deer) and a plant. As the founder wanted to form the organization to act as conservationists and as stated in the vision, live harmoniously with animals and environment, logo of the association depicts animal and a plant. Not only that, this association is for nature lovers. Nature includes animals and plants.

Slogan
Slogan of this association is “Let’s Protect Nature”. As mentioned above this association was formed to protect the nature. This slogan clearly manifest the ultimate purpose of the association.

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