Core Characteristics
It is the set of artifacts, values and assumptions that emerge from interactions with organizational members.
What is organizational culture?
Organizational culture is simultaneously the foreground and THIS or organization life.
What is Background?
Organizational members us messages, meanings and THESE to communicate their cultures.
What are symbols?
The relationship that positions culture before communication.
What is object orientation?
Different groups or THESE are created as organizational members interact with their daily work routines.
What are subcultures?
Using a communicative perspective, organizational culture has THIS many characteristics.
What are 5?
Culture is not primarily ‘inside’ people’s heads but rather this synonym of ‘in the middle’ of the heads of a group of people where symbols and meanings are expressed.
What is Between?
Culture can change and also do this synonym as employees move in and out of the organizational system.
What is morph?
An outcome of the culture based on object orientation relationships.
What is communication?
Subcultures can be developed by employees establishing relationships or becoming THIS, a 90’s sitcom starring Jennifer Aniston.
What is Friends?
Those who participate in the organization symbolically and socially to construct the culture.
Who is everyone?
Individuals use symbols such as words, objects and THESE to create messages.
What are Behaviors?
"Let’s do it this way because it’s the way we have always done it” is an example of THIS.
What is a norm?
The relationship that puts communication before culture.
What is the becoming orientation?
The type of divided perspective that reveals the organization is not so neatly divided, much like files in a computer.
What is fragmentation?
It is where culture gets its inheritance.
What is the community?
An organizational culture is created and managed by the organization’s members and is knows as its THIS type of system.
What is Belief?
At a convention such as an orientation, discussions about your experiences, what you think of your boss and the organization and how you are evaluating the orientation can function to pass along additional elements such as THESE.
What are cultural patterns?
The relationship is not linear and neither communication nor culture come first.
What is grounded in action orientation?
The type of segmentation that reveals oppositional thinking, with each subculture concerned about the power it holds relative to the other subculture.
What is differentiation?
The variety of influences on organizational culture.
What is cultural traffic?
The work of groups is so central to the organizational mission they are likely to come together as they work to control their collective destiny in the organization to produce this synonym of glue.
What is Bond?
Organizational cultures emerge from these two types of realities of all organizational members.
What are social and symbolic?
It explains how individuals make plausible, coherent and reasonable accounts of what happens in the work environment.
What is sensemaking?
Martin’s perspectives illuminate unique aspects of an organization’s culture, much like this device that displays an image based on light, reflection and color, that changes as it is turned.
What is a kaleidoscope?