When is organizational culture considered dysfunctional?

Organizational culture is considered dysfunctional when cultural incompatibility deters making acquisitions or mergers. Strong but misaligned cultures can create significant barriers to integration during mergers and acquisitions, leading to conflicts, reduced cooperation, and failure to achieve desired synergies. This dysfunction arises when the cultural values and practices of the merging organizations are fundamentally different, impeding successful collaboration (Cameron & Quinn, 2011).