CULTURE
Things that people believe in.
Beliefs
The men really dominate in this company- they don´t make life easy for women at all. All they talk about it football.
Macho culture
Encompass the diverse values, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms that distinguish groups of people.
Cultural differences
Reducing the number of management layers.
Delayering
Things that people think are important.
Values
They say that if you go home at 5:30, you can´t be doing your job properly. But I´m going anyway.
Long-hours culture
Who is a world-famous expert on cultural differences.
Geer Hofstede
Everyone´s opinion is treated equally.
Team of equals
Is the way of doing things around a country, an area, social class or an organization.
Culture
We´re all encouraged to go on courses and to keep up our specialist knowledge.
Learning culture
Frameworks used to understand and compare cultural values, beliefs, and behaviors across different societies.
Cultural dimensions
Another word for "respect"
Deference
Fixed ideas that may not be true.
Stereotypes
There was a time when managers could only wear white shirts in this particular company; things are a bit less formal now.
Company or corporate culture
This is the way people in a society relate to each other on a hierarchical scale.
Power-distance
All the chief executives in the company´s history have had background selling.
Sales culture
When people are encouraged to make money through their own activities and not rely on the goverment.
Enterprise culture
In this country, is easy to do business and there´s very little bureaucracy.
Business culture
Managers are accesible and approachable and there is a tradition of employees being involved in decision-making as part of a team of equals.
Low power-distance culture
Managers are usually more distant and remote. Employees may feel quite distant from their managers and show a lot of deference to them, following decisions but not participating in them.
High pwer-distance culture