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Cultural control, diversity, and change

Chapter 8 Discussion . Cultural control, diversity, and change. Cultural Control . Employees? Management? Forced? Treated as commodity ? Impacted by economy, technology, social world Culture  who does it benefit? Ideologies and ideological control.

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Cultural control, diversity, and change

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  1. Chapter 8 Discussion Cultural control, diversity, and change

  2. Cultural Control • Employees? • Management? • Forced? • Treated as commodity? • Impacted by economy, technology, social world • Culture  who does it benefit? • Ideologies and ideological control

  3. Organizational Socialization and Assimilation • Anticipatory socialization (example from case study?) • What we see and hear • Organizational anticipatory socialization • e.g. recruitment, websites (employee page) • Organizational Entry and Assimilation • Training, mentoring, employees as active receivers of information, move from control to independence • Exit

  4. Culture and Diversity within Organizations • Demographic characteristics • Modes of thinking, feeling, acting • Must value diversity • Remember case study on female doctor (“meeting quota”)

  5. Roles and Challenges • Traditional • Management control diverse culture  promote efficiency and productivity • Impact of diversity on efficiency and productivity • Making Equal Employment Opportunity Commission happy  • Interpretive • Impact of diversity on organization’s culture • More diversity = complex and diverse construction of reality (new ways of thinking; merging perspectives) • Possibility of conflict – impact on culture? • Critical • Sustainment of power regardless of diversity • Diversity creates conflict; who are the winners and losers • Benefits of diversity • Struggles associated with groups because of demo • Gender (e.g. sexual harassment; glass ceiling), race & ethnicity, class, physical abilities • Misconceptions? Challenges? • ACT #5

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