ORGS 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dress Code, Organizational Culture, Organizational Learning
23 Nov 2016
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Organizational culture is important, deeply rooted and difficult to change. Culture refers to a way of life shared by members of a given society and includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other abilities and habits acquired by members of that society. Organizational culture what members value and how they think, how members feel about the organization. Focuses on meaning, identity, values, metal models, habits, and shared understanding of how the organization woks. Socialization learning what is important, and what doesn"t matter, how to behave and even how to think learnt through formal (training and mentoring) and informal (listening and observing) methods. Culture shapes the identity of members of the organization we versus them . Premise that organizational culture develops over time and arises from shared experiences. One function of culture anxiety reduction. Different organizations have different strength and intensity of culture: depends on: Length of time the organization has existed.
