MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enculturation, Organizational Culture
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Work is a central part of daily life (collectively comprised of employers and employees) organizations a system or network of ordered relationships and coordinated activities directed toward specific goals. Organizations have 2 basic dimensions: structure: describes the underlying framework that shapes organization over time, 3 key elements: hierarchy, differentiation and specialization, formalization. Hierarchy refers to specific arrangement of job roles and positions based upon authority within organization certain people have more decision=making power, central to creation and maintenance of particular corporate culture. Formalization: the degree to which specific practices must conform to accepted organizational and professional conventions, process: Denotes actual substance erected upon that framework (structure) Structure and process, container and thing contained (content = process) Every organization develops unique organizational culture the set(s) of norms and customs, artifacts and events, and values and assumptions that emerge as a consequence of organizational members" communicative practices. 5 ways to study/examine organizational culture: performance, narratives, textual,
