3.4.2 Corporate culture

Question 1

What are the features of a power culture?

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Answer 1

• Everything through boss
• > Rules/procedures laid
• Comm = personal contact
• Decision making please boss

Question 2

What are the features of a role culture?

4

Answer 2

• Power = position person holds, not qualities
• Expected to follow rules
• Bureaucratic
• Promo = follows rule best

Question 3

What does a bureaucratic organisation entail?

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Answer 3

• Initiative stifled by paperwork/checking and rechecking of paperwork

Question 4

What are the features of a task culture?

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Answer 4

• Project teams formed for single project, disbanded after
• Power = expertise, >status
• Employees get used to work w other departments

Question 5

What are the features of a person culture and what leadership style is it?
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Answer 5

• Staff well paid/treated
• Staff feel sense of personal development, ^motivating
• Democratic