MGMT1021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Adhocracy, Femininity, Collectivism
1 Nov 2016
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Organizational culture describes underlying values, beliefs, and assumptions that are shared by people within an organization. Culture emerges over time and can be traced to the origins and attributed to the founders. Organizational culture is the patterns of shared beliefs, values, and behaviors within an organization and cannot be accounted for by traditional organizational factors such as organizational reporting systems, structures, and policies. Culture shapes how individuals perceive, think, and feel. Cultures create rituals, myths, and stories of the organization and provide a means for individuals and organizations to identify with and interpret symbols and events. Schein"s model shows that culture reveals itself in. Artifacts that represent the objects than can be readily observed in organizations. Physical artifacts are easy to identify and include art, buildings, decor, dress, and other material objects. Behavioral artifacts include ceremonies, rituals, traditions, and customs. Verbal artifacts include jargon, nicknames, stories, myths, villains, and metaphors. Describe what the members of the culture say they believe.
