COMM 2P65 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Organizational Culture, Creative Industries, Chameleon
6 Apr 2015
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Keep culture in mind: what is your definition of culture, deciding on a definition influences what you look for and explain. Plutchik"s wheel of emotions: uncover the emotions, use them in description. Values: openness, frankness, clarity, frequency, accuracy, timeliness and brevity, cooperation, coordination, standardization. Improvement, creativity, surprise integrity, accountability, loyalty, respect for individual, establishing policies, service to society, innovation. Fragmentation martin (2011: neither consensus or subcultures (martin, 2001 107, fragmentation focuses on multiplicities of interpretation views are constantly in flux. Ambiguity: uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language, ambi two-ness, duality united, also total, surround, ambient. Some sources of ambiguity: language and thought, complexity of tasks. Comm2p65 march 9, 2015: organizational flexibility, turbulence, plurality, knowledge, beyond black and white thinking, creating dismantling in grammar, cross cutting messages. Source of ambiguity: felxibility: flexible labour relations, more retraining, freelance, part-time, contract work, temporary, frequent turn over of staff and management, dismantling, mergers, brand extensions, labour recognition, flexible time schedules.
