MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Organizational Culture, Personalization, Enculturation
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Collectively, employers and employees comprise organizations: a system or network of ordered relationships and coordinated activities directed toward speci c goals. Two basic dimensions: structure and process: structure describes the underlying framework that shapes an organization overtime, and includes three elements: hierarchy, differentiation and specialization, and formalization. Professionals are individuals who possess expertise in a particular area or eld that allows them to accomplish the distinctive tasks of their position. Formalization is the degree to which speci c practices must conform to accepted organizational and professional conventions: where structure describes the underlying framework of an organization, process denotes the actual substance erected upon that framework. Communicative practices are dynamic, contingent, and transactional, meaning that they"re not static, universal, or bounded, but complex, improvisational, and continuous: to understand organizational culture one must look at its communicative practices in local, social, and historical contexts. Performance: performances are expressive displays that carry symbolic signi cance in a particular context.
