Day 1 Ppt Flashcards
What is organizational culture?
Repetitive patterns familiar with pattern/habit.
what are the 3 ‘Cognitive Phenomena?’
- Norms
- Values
- Beliefs
What is the definition for ‘Norms’ in the Cognitive Phenomena?
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!”)
What is the Definition for ‘Values’ in the cognitive phenomena?
Idea, that describes an organizations preference for its goals, and what it is trying to achieve, and how. (Example - Shareholder Value)
What is the Definition for ‘Beliefs’ in the cognitive phenomena?
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
What are 3 forms of practice and communication?
- Scapegoating
- Sense-making
- Sense-Giving
What is scapegoating?
Dynamic that occurs, when a group is confronted with a big crisis, where they choose someone to scarifies, so the culture can go on.
What is Sense-Makeing?
Things, that are set in place, so employees have sense making, a way to work and do things.
What is Sense-Giving?
When we are confronted by a situation, in which we choose a frame, what we try to communicate with others as the appropriate frame.
What are the 10 principal characteristics of organizational culture?
- Individually experienced/Collective Ownership
- Common/Unique
- Grounded in shared history/Subject to change
- Symbolic/Material
- Tangible/Intangible
- Explicit/Implicit
- Surface/Depth
- Local/Global
- Clarity/Ambiguity
10 Rationality/Non-Ratinality
- Enabling/Constraining
Individually experienced/ Collective Ownership
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.
Common/Unique
Organizations are going to have some unique, that explains how they are special or different.
Grounded in shared history/Subject to change
Organizational culture, always comes up when we talk about traditions. (Ex - Cu graduate class singing buffs fight song).
Symbolic/Material
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.)
Tangible/ Intangible
Things that can be felt or sensed, or things that we are not fully aware of, or not fully inflecting on.
Explicit/ Implicit
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.
Surface/Depth
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,.)
Local/Global
(Example - How CU Boulder can make its way beyond Colorado, or boulder. )
Clarity/ Ambiguity
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.
Rationality/ Non-Rationality
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.
Enabling/ Constraining
- How is this power empowering people, and how is it constraining them?
What are the 5 different metaphors we have gone over?
- Exchange Regulator
- Social Glue
- Blinders
- Affect Regulator
- Compass
What does the ‘Exchange Regulator’ Metaphor mean?
Culture provides us with a sense of time and place, situational appropriateness, who, when , where?
What does the ‘Social Glue’ metaphor mean?
(Rather than being corrosive, ideally organizational culture is a bond, that brings us together for better or for worse.
