A reciprocal relationship exists be

A reciprocal relationship exists between organizational culture and commu-
nication (Pepper, 1995). On the one hand, communication is the tool that helps
to transmit organizational culture to each other and to the newcomers of the
organization, and it also enables the culture to be maintained and developed
in its certain way. In a sense, culture comes into being through constant
communication among the members of the organization, and communication
changes the cultural assumptions over time. Culture deeply shapes and alters
the communication within this specific culture. “The culture encourages
certain topics for communication and discounts others. The culture often deter-
mines who talks with whom, on what occasions, and covering what matters”
(Neher, p. 127, 1997). Organizational culture, therefore, may be thought of as
the manner in which an organization solves problems to achieve its specific
goals and to maintain itself over time. Moreover, it is holistic, historically
determined, socially constructed, and difficult to change (Hofstede et al.,
1990).