COMM 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Organizational Culture, Regional Policy Of The European Union, Social Influence
17 Mar 2016
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Chapter 8: social influence, socialization and organizational culture. Learning objective 1: define organizational culture and discuss the contributors to a culture. Organizational culture consists of the shared beliefs, values, and assumptions that exist in an organization. It represents a true way of life for organizational members who often take its influence for granted. It tends to be fairly stable over time and once established it can persist despite turnover among organizational members, providing social continuity. Subcultures are smaller cultures that develop within a larger organizational culture that are based on differences in training, occupation, or departmental goals. Sometimes, organizations have strong culture (an organizational culture with intense and pervasive beliefs, values, and assumptions. It provides great consensus concerning the purpose of the organization. ) At the contrary, weak culture have less influence on members. Strong culture are associated with greater success and effectiveness. Socialization is the process that makes a new employee adopt the organizational culture.
