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    This document discusses the nature of organizational culture. It defines organizational culture as shared values, opinions, beliefs and sense-making mechanisms that guide how members perceive, think and feel. It identifies key aspects of culture like behaviors, norms, dominant values, philosophy on employees and customers, and rules. It then describes four common cultural types - family culture with a caring hierarchical structure, Eiffel tower culture with a rigid hierarchical structure focused on tasks, guided missile culture with equality and interdependence focused on goals, and incubator culture with flexibility focused on self-expression. Finally, it notes there are different levels to a culture from surface artifacts to deeper underlying assumptions.

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    This document discusses the nature of organizational culture. It defines organizational culture as shared values, opinions, beliefs and sense-making mechanisms that guide how members perceive, think and feel. It identifies key aspects of culture like behaviors, norms, dominant values, philosophy on employees and customers, and rules. It then describes four common cultural types - family culture with a caring hierarchical structure, Eiffel tower culture with a rigid hierarchical structure focused on tasks, guided missile culture with equality and interdependence focused on goals, and incubator culture with flexibility focused on self-expression. Finally, it notes there are different levels to a culture from surface artifacts to deeper underlying assumptions.

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    This document discusses the nature of organizational culture. It defines organizational culture as shared values, opinions, beliefs and sense-making mechanisms that guide how members perceive, think and feel. It identifies key aspects of culture like behaviors, norms, dominant values, philosophy on employees and customers, and rules. It then describes four common cultural types - family culture with a caring hierarchical structure, Eiffel tower culture with a rigid hierarchical structure focused on tasks, guided missile culture with equality and interdependence focused on goals, and incubator culture with flexibility focused on self-expression. Finally, it notes there are different levels to a culture from surface artifacts to deeper underlying assumptions.

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    Nature of Organization Culture

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    This document discusses the nature of organizational culture. It defines organizational culture as shared values, opinions, beliefs and sense-making mechanisms that guide how members perceive, think and feel. It identifies key aspects of culture like behaviors, norms, dominant values, philosophy on employees and customers, and rules. It then describes four common cultural types - family culture with a caring hierarchical structure, Eiffel tower culture with a rigid hierarchical structure focused on tasks, guided missile culture with equality and interdependence focused on goals, and incubator culture with flexibility focused on self-expression. Finally, it notes there are different levels to a culture from surface artifacts to deeper underlying assumptions.

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    Nature Of Organization Culture

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    Organizational Culture
    • A pattern of basic assumptions - invented,
    discovered, or developed by a given group as
    it learns to cope with its problems of external
    adaptation and internal integration - that has
    worked well enough to be considered valid
    and, therefore, to be taught to new members
    as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel
    in relation to those problems
    The Nature of Organizational Culture
    • Organizational culture: Shared values, opinions and
    beliefs and sense-making mechanisms enabling
    members to understand their roles and norms of
    the organization, including:
    – Observed behavioral regularities, typified by
    common language, terminology, rituals.
    – Norms, reflected by things such as amount
    of work to do, how to do it, and degree of
    cooperation between management and employees.
    – Dominant values organization advocates and
    expects participants to share (e.g., low absenteeism,
    high efficiency)
    – Philosophy set forth regarding how to treat
    employees and customers
    – Rules dictating do’s and don’ts of employee
    behavior pertaining to productivity and intergroup
    cooperation.
    – Organizational climate as reflected by way
    participants interact with each other, treat customers,
    and feel about how treated by senior level
    management.
    Four Cultural Type

    * Family
    * Eiffel Tower
    * Incubator
    * Guided Missile
    1. Family Culture
    • Strong emphasis on hierarchy and orientation to
    persons
    • Power oriented
    • Leader regarded as caring parent
    – Management takes care of employees, ensures
    they’re treated well, and have continued employment
    • Either catalyze and multiply energies, trust and
    loyalties of personnel or end up supporting leader who
    is ineffective and drains energy and loyalties
    2. Eiffel Tower
    • Strong emphasis on hierarchy and orientation to
    task.
    • Jobs well defined; coordination from top.
    • Culture narrow at top; broad at base.
    • Relationships are specific, status stays with job.
    • Transactional, task-oriented relationships.
    • Few off-the-job relationships between manager and
    employee.
    • Formal hierarchy is impersonal and efficient.
    3. Guided Missile
    • Stronger emphasis on equality vs equity in
    workplace. “All jobs/tasks are important.”
    – Interdependent task-driven
    organizational culture.
    • Culture oriented to work and the mission. It is the
    goal that matters.
    • Work undertaken by teams or project groups .
    • All team members equal .
    • Treat each other with respect.
    4. Incubator Culture
    • Strong emphasis on equity and personal
    orientation.
    • Organization as incubator for self-expression
    and self-fulfillment.
    • Little formal structure.
    • Participants confirm, criticize, develop, find
    resources for, or help complete development
    of innovative product or service.
    Levels of Organizational Culture
    • Artifacts
    • Espoused Values
    • Actual Values
    • Basic Underlying Assumption
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