MHR 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Organizational Culture, Sensemaking, Individualism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 505
• Professor: Genevieve Farrell

Document Summary

Merging organizational cultures: assimilation acquired company embraces acquiring firm"s cultural values, deculturation acquiring firm imposes its culture on unwilling acquired firm, separation merging companies remain separate with their own culture, bicultural audit: Integration cultures combine into a new composite culture: part of due diligence in merger, minimizes risk of culture collision by diagnosing companies before merger. Identify cultural artifacts: analyze data for cultural conflict/compatibility. Identify strategies and action plans to bridge cultures. Individualism: the degree to which people value personal freedom, self-sufficiency, control over themselves, and being appreciated for unique qualities, canada is second highest. Collectivism: the degree to which people value their group membership and harmonious relationships within the group, canada is second lowest. Uncertainty avoidance: high uncertainty avoidance feel threatened by ambiguity and uncertainty, value structures situations and direct communication, low uncertainty avoidance tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty, canada is third lowest.