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What is Organizational Culture?

What is Organizational Culture?. A system of meaning shared by the organization’s members Cultural values are collective beliefs, assumptions, and feelings about what things are good, normal, rational, valuable, etc. Culture’s Overall Function.

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What is Organizational Culture?

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  1. What is Organizational Culture? • A system of meaning shared by the organization’s members • Cultural values are collective beliefs, assumptions, and feelings about what things are good, normal, rational, valuable, etc.

  2. Culture’s Overall Function Culture is the social glue that helps hold an organization together by providing appropriate standards for what employees should say or do.

  3. Stories Rituals How Employees Learn Culture/ How it is “reinforced” Language Material Symbols Chapter 17

  4. Controlling behavior Defining boundaries Conveying identity Promoting commitment Blocking mergers Inhibiting diversity Inhibiting change Blocking acquisitions Organizational Culture Functions Liabilities Chapter 17

  5. What Is Organizational Culture? • Innovation and risk taking (3M) • Outcome orientation (Bausch & Lomb) • People orientation (SWA) • Aggressiveness (Microsoft) • Family-friendly (SAS Institute) Chapter 17

  6. How OrganizationalCultures Form Top Management Philosophy of the Organization’s Founders: Ben & Jerry, Herb Kelleher, Bill Gates Organizational Culture Selection Socialization Chapter 17

  7. Do Organizations Have Uniform Cultures Subcultures Dominant Culture Core Values Chapter 17

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