What is the Culture at IIM B and how is it formed?

Organizational culture has been defined as "the specific unwritten set of values, understandings, beliefs and norms that are shared by people and groups in an organization and that control the way they interact with each other and with stakeholders outside the organization, it is passed on to new members. Culture is basically people's "way of life", meaning the way they do things. It basically exists in two parts, first is the smaller and visible part of it containing symbols, slogans, behaviors, dress, physical settings and the larger part which is basically the feeling part consisting of underlying values, assumptions, beliefs, attitudes etc.
IIM B is an organization consisting of students, faculty, staff and administration. The student body makes the larger part of it. The inculcating of the cultural values that this organization upholds starts right from the first day of orientation program for new batch. Firstly, let us start with ceremonies, on the very first day the Director awarded the people placed in the Director’s Merit List and doing it before the upcoming batch reinforces the emphasis the organization puts into academics. This inspires the new arrival to focus their energies on studies. The lecture on ethics and social responsibility reinstated the importance that this organization relates to the ethics at work place and what it expects from its student bodies. Also the emphasis on case studies and team building program both in the institute and outside at outbound gave new student an idea about the importance of team work here. The visit with Vikasana at different places gave students an idea of how IIM B as an organization wants to be socially active and improve not only the internal and external environment. The code of conduct laid by the Student Affairs Council for the behavior of student body reinforced the importance of brand IIM B which students from now on have to uphold not only these two years but throughout their lives. Last but not the least the party thrown by the senior batch at L^2 for the new arrivals encouraged a bonding among the new arrivals and also among the two batches. Secondly, stories about alumni and their success at different levels of society and corporate world inspire the student to innovate and take lead in different walks of life.
IIM B has a strong focus on external environment; this is maintained by flexibility and change to meet the demands of students, recruiters and industries. The culture encourages initiatives from the student body most of the student affairs and decisions are in the hands Student Affairs Council , a elected student body representing the student body inside the campus. The students are free to suggest any improvements or changes in any process at any point of time and follow their interest through activities organized by numerous clubs in the campus. Even the students are allowed to come forth and open a new club if they think that the existing clubs don’t cater to the needs. The different clubs like Forum for industrial interactions, ICON consulting club etc. try to increase the industry academia interaction through different operations. Vikasana, the people working for society at large give students a chance to contribute to different aspects of society. Other clubs like EnI give student an opportunity to hone his ideas and understand the pros and cons of startups and encourage them to think out of the box. The IIM B community needs its student to have a great focus on academics and expects high performance at every level. The students are provided with almost all the help possible from seniors, professors and administration in this aspect. The students are provided with study materials, tutorials so they can learn from self learning. The students are encouraged to work with different industries to broaden their horizons and practical training. This not only encourages them to follow their interest but brings leader out of them which is the basic mission of this organization i.e. to give India leaders in every walk of life.