MGNT201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Edgar Schein, Organizational Culture, Breast Implant
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According to anthropologists and sociologists, culture represents the belief systems, values and specific human behaviours that distinguish one society from another. Organisational culture: despite the connection between organisational culture and national or host culture, organisations will still develop their own individual cultures derived from the particular characteristics and experiences unique to the organisation, e. g. multinational companies. What is culture: 151 + definitions - ollie 1951. "a collective programming of the mind which distinguished one group from another" - hofstede. "(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal progra(cid:373)(cid:373)i(cid:374)g patter(cid:374)s of thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d feeli(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d pote(cid:374)tial acti(cid:374)g" - hoftede. "a groups pattern on shared taken for granted basic assumptoins" - edgar schein: more informally: "the way we do things around here" - lecturers fave. Schein also observes that culture is the result of a complex group learning process that is only partially influenced by leader behaviour. "they just do(cid:374)"t do that i(cid:374) that i(cid:374)dustry" Strongly regulated, weakly integrated: e. g. totalitarian regimes or organisations, basis of power - domination.
