COMM 3325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Organizational Culture, Office Space, Robert French
3 Jul 2016
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Organizational culture is defined as the actions, practices, stories, and artifacts that characterize a particular organization. Organizational ethnography has several benefits: it provides rich descriptions of organizational life, it often captures subtle points, it exposes the sources of power and resistance, it encourages a definition of the workplace as a community. Researchers focus on different views when investigating organizational culture: practical view, interpretive view, critical view. Under this view, scholars suggested that organizational culture can be influenced and controlled by the management. Deal and kennedy (1982) defined strong organizational cultures as having a supportive business environment. A dedication to a shared vision and values. Formal and informal communication networks: if managers create a culture with these characteristics, business success will follow. The rise of critical theories in the united states. In the early twentieth century companies like ford realized a clear connection between wages of their workers and the ability to be an active consumer.
