BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Organizational Culture, Organizational Learning, Interpersonal Relationship
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Often, an oc becomes obvious only when contrasted with that of other firms or when it changes: because culture involves assumptions, values, and beliefs, it tends to be stable. Also, once a culture is well established, it can persist despite turnover among members social continuity: culture can involve internal or external matters. Internally, a culture may support risk, or secrecy of info. However, they differ in their value profiles as some emphasized task values while other firms emphasized interpersonal relationship values. Firms that emphasized work task values had higher employee turnover rate: liabilities of strong cultures. Bu288 lecture 18: culture = way of life may be difficult for uninitiated outsiders to read and understand. 2012. culture is to examine the symbols, rituals, and stories that characterize the organization"s way of life. For insiders, these 4 mechanisms team/reinforce the culture: symbols: any physical symbol that communicates what the organization is like. (ex: building architecture, pictures on the wall, office layout).
