Day 1 Ppt

Question 1

What is organizational culture?

Answer 1

Repetitive patterns familiar with pattern/habit.

Question 2

what are the 3 ‘Cognitive Phenomena?’

Answer 2

• Norms
• Values
• Beliefs

Question 3

What is the definition for ‘Norms’ in the Cognitive Phenomena?

Answer 3

Culture works to regulate our behavior, to give us models, rules to show how to do things. (Ex - “Why are you late to the meeting? we don’t do that around here!”)

Question 4

What is the Definition for ‘Values’ in the cognitive phenomena?

Answer 4

Idea, that describes an organizations preference for its goals, and what it is trying to achieve, and how. (Example - Shareholder Value)

Question 5

What is the Definition for ‘Beliefs’ in the cognitive phenomena?

Answer 5

Reflect our certanty, for something that is real, or true. (Ex, Overtime an organization might higher one specific racial group, Might give a belief that the racial group, that company is highering from is somehow smarter or better.) Actions

Question 6

What are 3 forms of practice and communication?

Answer 6

• Scapegoating
• Sense-making
• Sense-Giving

Question 7

What is scapegoating?

Answer 7

Dynamic that occurs, when a group is confronted with a big crisis, where they choose someone to scarifies, so the culture can go on.

Question 8

What is Sense-Makeing?

Answer 8

Things, that are set in place, so employees have sense making, a way to work and do things.

Question 9

What is Sense-Giving?

Answer 9

When we are confronted by a situation, in which we choose a frame, what we try to communicate with others as the appropriate frame.

Question 10

What are the 10 principal characteristics of organizational culture?

Answer 10

1. Individually experienced/Collective Ownership
2. Common/Unique
3. Grounded in shared history/Subject to change
4. Symbolic/Material
5. Tangible/Intangible
6. Explicit/Implicit
7. Surface/Depth
8. Local/Global
9. Clarity/Ambiguity

10 Rationality/Non-Ratinality

11. Enabling/Constraining

Question 11

Individually experienced/ Collective Ownership

Answer 11

All of us have our own unique experience of our organizational culture. Culture is something that we make together, even with our own personal interactions, and experiences.

Question 12

Common/Unique

Answer 12

Organizations are going to have some unique, that explains how they are special or different.

Question 13

Grounded in shared history/Subject to change

Answer 13

Organizational culture, always comes up when we talk about traditions. (Ex - Cu graduate class singing buffs fight song).

Question 14

Symbolic/Material

Answer 14

Made up of things that are symbolic, and made up of verbal, and non verbal languages. (Ex - We know what Ralphie mean of the CU campus, that outsiders don’t. - Frontier/Strength/Romance of the west filled with symbolism.)

Question 15

Tangible/ Intangible

Answer 15

Things that can be felt or sensed, or things that we are not fully aware of, or not fully inflecting on.

Question 16

Explicit/ Implicit

Answer 16

How it is that cultures can be evoked subtly, or indirectly. (No one is going to explicitly teach you the culture, but they will teach you indirectly, by showing you, and expect you in imitate, to perform, to model.

Question 17

Surface/Depth

Answer 17

What is underneath, is sacred, and in some religion, things that are sacred, are things we do not talk about or speak about. Can not be spoken explicitly. (ex - When Jewish, you don’t write God on paper,.)

Question 18

Local/Global

Answer 18

(Example - How CU Boulder can make its way beyond Colorado, or boulder. )

Question 19

Clarity/ Ambiguity

Answer 19

Looking for the influence of cultural norms, values, and beliefs that can give us the culture norms. We shouldn’t expect organizational cultures to be completely clear.

Question 20

Rationality/ Non-Rationality

Answer 20

Contemporary organizations, value thinking and logic. They believe that thinking logically and strategically can save them. Or make them rational. WE can explain what we are doing in ways that make sense to one another.

Question 21

Enabling/ Constraining

Answer 21

• How is this power empowering people, and how is it constraining them?

Question 22

What are the 5 different metaphors we have gone over?

Answer 22

• Exchange Regulator
• Social Glue
• Blinders
• Affect Regulator
• Compass

Question 23

What does the ‘Exchange Regulator’ Metaphor mean?

Answer 23

Culture provides us with a sense of time and place, situational appropriateness, who, when , where?

Question 24

What does the ‘Social Glue’ metaphor mean?

Answer 24

(Rather than being corrosive, ideally organizational culture is a bond, that brings us together for better or for worse.

Question 25

What does the ‘Blinders’ Metaphor mean?

Answer 25

Traditions that sometimes create blind spots, which can bring us into a habit or rut. (Ex -There was a tradition to wear black face in frat houses)

Question 26

What does the ‘Affect Regulator’ metaphor mean?

Answer 26

Culture regulates our sense of what is rational and what is not rational. What is play and what is work.

Question 27

What does the ‘Compass’ Metaphor mean?

Answer 27

• Provides us with big questions, like who are we? what are we supposed to be doing around here? how should we do it? OC is a compass because it helps us answer those questions.