ADM 2336 Lecture Notes - Peer Pressure, Westjet, Organizational Culture
3 Feb 2012
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Adm2336a - chapter 8: social influence and socialization in culture. In your interest as a manager to integrate workers into the organization. y understanding the incorporating organization into the worker s life. y the organization and the workers are dependent on each other. Information dependence gives others the opportunity to influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions via the signals they send to us y you form an impression of others through the influence of others. Do you comply and to what extent do you comply. Motives for social conformity y the motives for social conformity vary across situations and can be classified as follows: compliance: adapting a social norm only to avoid punishment or get reward. Simplest, most direct motive for conformity to group norms. Identification: doing it in the respect of the individual who is asking for it; involves information dependence. Established members serve as models for the behaviour of others.
