Day 2 Variable/Root Flashcards
What two schools of thought where antaphetacal to each other?
Culture as a variable (something that can change), culture as root metaphor.
Culture as Something the organization “has”
Culture as a variable
Managers believe they can change it
Variable
Representative authors: Deal and Kennedy
Variable
What were the 4 attributes Deal and Kennedy believed made a strong culture?
Values, Heroes, Rites and Rituals, Cultural Communicaiton Networks.
What are values?
Shared beliefs and philosophies
What are heroes?
members who best personify the values
What are rites and rituals?
Symbolic ceremonies that celebrate values, they reinstate and strengthen them.
What are informal channels of interaction?
Cultural Communication Networks
What did Culture as Variable believe?
That any organization could become strong with a strong culture
Why can’ t any organization become strong with a strong culture?
Cultures are complex and not unitary (not one for everyone.
If culture is based on people interacting through history then it is difficult to change
Something the organization “is”
Root Metaphor
Culture is not in the hands of management
Root Metapho
What are the 3 attributes of culture according to the Root Metaphor?
Complex
Communicative constructed
Subcultures and counter cultures (some purposefully want to be seen as different)
What is the innermost portion of Schien;s Model of Culture?
Basic Assumptions- The nature of the people, what you are doing together.
