ADMS 2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Macewan University, Grant Macewan, Cappuccino
30 Apr 2018
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ADMS 2320 Lecture 7 Notes – Language
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• For instance, pictures of all Creo employees hang in the Burnaby, BC-ased opay’s
etrae loy, hih isily oeys Creo’s ati-hierarchical culture.
• Companies differ in how much separation they make between their executives and
employees.
• This plays out in how material benefits are distributed to executives.
• Some companies provide their top executives with chauffeur-driven limousines and,
when they travel by air, unlimited use of the corporate jet.
• Other companies might pay for car and air transportation for top executives, only the
car is a Chevrolet with no driver, and the jet seat is in the economy section of a
commercial airliner.
• At Bolton, Ontario-based Husky Injection Molding Systems, a more egalitarian culture is
favored.
• Employees and management share the parking lot, dining room, and even washrooms.
• Case Incident—Is a 5S Culture for You?
• How the 5S method has been used to implement and sustain order in workspaces.
• Many organizations and subunits within them use language to help members identify
with the culture, show their acceptance of it, and help preserve it.
• Baristas at Starbucks call drinks short, tall, grande, and venti instead of small, medium,
large, and extra-large, and they know the difference between a half-decaf double tall
almond skinny mocha and an iced short schizo skinny hazelnut cappuccino with wings.
• Students and employees at Grant MacEwan College are informed by the philosophy of
the ollege’s aesake.
• Dr. Grant MacEwan, historian, writer, politician, and environmentalist, was never a
formal part of the management of the organization.
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