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Organizational Culture

Submitted by toddqueka on April 21, 2007

Category: Philosophy
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Organizational Culture & Leadership
"Some are born great,
some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon 'em"
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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• Culture a phenomenon that surrounds us all.
• Culture helps us understand how it is created, embedded, developed, manipulated, managed, and changed.
• Culture defines leadership.
• Understand the culture to understand the organization.
Defining Organizational Culture
• Culture is customs and rights.
• Good managers must work from a more anthropological model.
• Each org has its own way and an outsider brings his/her baggage as observer.
• Understand new environment and culture before change or observation can be made.
1. Observe behavior: language, customs, traditions
2. Groups norms: standards and values
3. Espoused values: published, publicly announced values.
4. Formal Philosophy: mission
5. Rules of the Game: rules to all in org
6. Climate: climate of group in interaction
7. Embedded skills:
8. Habits of thinking, acting, paradigms: Shared knowledge for socialization.
9. Shared meanings of the group
10. Metaphors or symbols:
• Culture: norms, values, behavior patterns, rituals, traditions.
• Culture implies structural stability and Patterning and integration.
• Culture is the accumulated shared learning from shared history.
• 2 problems all groups must deal with:
1. survival, growth, and adaptation in environment
2. internal integration that permits functioning and adapting.

Culture Formally Defined
A pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore,...

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