Organizational Culture

Discussion Board Directions:
Please read the following articles.

• What is Organizational Culture and Why Should We Care?  (Harvard Coursepack)
• The Cultural Web
  The use of johnsons cultrual web to imporve uderstanding of organizaional culture.pdf
  Questions:
  1.  How would you describe the organizational culture at your past or current organization? How were you assimilated into the culture?

1. We’ve learned about the Cultural Web model. In this model, six interrelated elements of organizational culture make up the “paradigm”, and this influence how we perceive and make sense of things. I expect you to think more about these elements by answering the questions below. (Apply your past/current organization)
   Stories:
   What stories do people currently tell about your organization? And from the past?
   Rituals and Routines:
   What do customers expect when they walk in? What behavior do certain routines encourage? When a new problem is encountered, what rules do people apply when they solve it?
   Symbols
   Is organization-specific jargon or language used? How well known and usable by all it this? Are there any status symbols used?
   Organizational structure
   Is the structure flat or hierarchical? Formal or informal?
   Control systems
   What process or procedure has the strongest controls? Weakest controls?
   Power structure
   Who has real power in the organization?
   What do these responses tell you about your organization's culture and the core paradigm(s) at play?
2. Related to organizational culture, what companies do you think stand out to you as having a unique culture? what, if anything, stands out to you about their organizational cultures that makes them different in comparison with others?

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