MHR 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dramatization, Onboarding, Sensemaking

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 505
• Professor: Angus Yao

Document Summary

Organizational culture: the values and assumptions shared within an organization. Values are stable, evaluative beliefs that guide our preferences for outcomes or courses of action in a variety of situations. In the context of organizational culture, values are discussed as shared values which are values that people within the organization or work unit have in common and place near the top of their hierarchy of values. Shared assumptions are unconscious, taken-for-granted perceptions or ideal prototypes of behaviour that are considered the correct way to think and act toward problems and opportunities. The concern is that corporate leaders typically described espoused values the values that they want others to believe guide the organization"s decisions and actions. Organizational culture is not represented by espoused values. It consists of shared enacted values the values that most leaders and employees truly rely on to guide their decisions and behaviour. Models oversimplify the diversity of cultural values in organizations.