BUS 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stanford Prison Experiment, American Apparel, Sweatshop

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Business
• Course: BUS 223
• Professor: Haskovon Kriegstein

Document Summary

Corporate culture: why is it important, what does it tell you about culture, situational attribution vs. dispositional attribution, stanford prison experiment. Organization"s culture: shared pattern of beliefs, expectations, and meanings that influences and guides the thinking and behaviours of a particular group (p. 110) Corporate culture includes things like : tempo of work, the organization"s approach to humour, methods of problem solving, the competitive environment, hierarchical structure. Organizations famous for their culture: google, american apparel (no sweatshop, uber, 3m. 2 (main) types of culture: compliance-based, values-based. Compliance-based culture: emphasizes obedience to the rules as the employee"s primary responsibility, usually empowers legal counsel and audit offices to mandate and to monitor compliance with the law and with internal codes. Values-based culture: aka integrity-based , reinforces a particular set of values rather than a particular set of rules, values & principles work to guide employee decisions rather than as hard-and-fast rules, when rules are unclear, we rely employee integrity .