What is an Organization
Without people and their interaction, an organization could not exist
What is an organization?
Artifacts, values, and assumptions emerge from interactions of members
What is Organizational Culture?
Concept first applied to social groupings that were geographically distinguished
What is Culture?
Deeply entrenched within organization taken for granted
What are assumptions?
Visible or tangible
What are Artifacts?
Controlled and coordinated activity
What are organizations do not act randomly?
Manufacturing, Research, and development
What are common structural labels?
System of values for any group of people
What is the view of culture?
Direct how organizational members should perceive, think, feel, and act
How do assumptions guide behavior?
Analyses of organization’s artifacts
What is partial?
The way in which organizational activities are organized into functional or operational units
What is functional expertise?
It can be described as a broad tendency to prefer certain states of affairs over others
What is values?
Kansas Jayhawk
What is cultural symbol?
Extremely difficult to change
What are assumptions do not rise to the level of conversation?
Difficult to reconstruct meaning for a particular group
How are artifacts easy to observe?
Organization’s structure delineated by time frame or geographical region
What is structural labels?
When we speak about organizations having value
What is metaphorically?
Those who are Jayhawks and those who are not
What two cultural groups?
Run the risk of not understanding others behaving according to different set of assumptions
How are assumptions so powerful?
Logos, Jayhawks, and keychains
What is embedding identity?
Employees are indirectly linked through some type of network structure
What are patterns of ordered activity and communication channels?
Control, authority, ambition, pleasure, and honest
What are common organizational values?
Collective representation of culture when the symbol or meaning is deeply felt or held
What is symbol of collective representation?
Focus on bottom line is embedded in organization and accepted
What is profit-centered assumption?
Informal or unconsciously held rules for how people should behave
What are norms?