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Organisational Culture
Pauline Loewenberger
Individual Skills
Task Skills
Team Skills
Power in Organizations
Organizational Culture
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1.
What is Culture? Culture is the collective values, assumptions, beliefs and paradigms
organization.
Culture is elusive
based on hidden assumptions people are often the last to know
Culture is learned
members learn to cope with threat where things which seem to work
CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE
1. Culture is learned and acquired. Not all things shared generally by a population are cultural-for it to be considered cultural it must be first learned as well as shared.
Analysing Cultures
What do you have to do to get fired around here? What do you have to do to get promoted around here?
Entrepreneurial Control through key individuals Little bureaucracy Able to move and react quickly Charles Handys Zeus
The chief god Showers of gold and thunderbolts!
Role Culture
Based on procedures and pre-defined roles Stereotype bureaucracy Slow to react and change
Task Culture
People Culture
Quality of work is paramount Individuals are craftsmen They can achieve their purposes Think of a group medical practice,
or of architects
CharlesHandys Dionysus
God of the individual, of the free spirit
International Cultures
Two dimensions:
Uncertainty avoidance Power distance
International Cultures
power distance index
small power distance, weak uncertainty avoidance (village market) large power distance, weak uncertainty avoidance (family)
Individualism
Focus on themselves and family rather than society in general
Masculinity
Achievement vs caring