Philosophy 2074F/G Chapter Notes -Business Ethics, Enculturation, Fortune 1000
1 May 2013
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Anthropologists define culture as a body of learned beliefs, traditions and guides for behaviour shared among members of a group. To assess and understand an organization"s culture requires knowledge of the organization"s history an dvalues along with a systematic analysis of multiple formal and informal organizational systems. Organizational cultures can be strong or weak. In a strong culture, standards and guidelines are widely shared within the organization, providing common direction for day to day behavior. Citicorps culture proved to be so strong that standards and guidelines spanned continents and superseded national culture. In a weak organizational culture, strong subcultures exist and guide behavior that differs from one subculture to another. It"s important to note that weak doesn"t necessarily mean bad. Behavioral consistency across the organization is tough to achieve. Employees are brought into the organization"s culture through a process called enculturation, or socialization.
