Day one DQ's Flashcards
What is the definition for Organization?
An organization is composed of people, who, with interactions amongst each other, provides expectations of structure, or behavior.
What is the definition for organizational Organization?
A complex and continuous process through which organizational members create, maintain, and change the organization.
What is organizational culture?
A pattern of shared basic assumptions that was learned by a group as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that worked well enough to be considered valid.
What are the 5 “Core Characteristics” of OC?
- Linked to organizational Matters
- Dynamic, Not static
- Competing values and assumptions
- Emotionally charged
- Foreground and background
What is the different relationships between Organizational Culture, and Organizational Communication?
- Communication creates and recreates organizational reality.
- Meaning is constructed on a local scale
- Different groups and individuals in organizations construct their view of the organization and its activities differently.
- Communication in an organization is constrained by the prior reality and also shapes the existing reality.
What is the definition of sensemakeing?
Explains how individuals make plausible, coherent, and reasonable accounts of what happens in the work environment.
What is organizational member discourse?
Organizational members generally do not talk directly about what the culture is, how to affirm it, or even how to change it.
What are 3 functions of symbols?
- They reflect organizational culture
- Influence behavior by triggering internalized values and norms
- Facilitate organizational members, communication about their organizational experiences.
According to JK, what are myths about oc?
- What works as culture in one organization will work in another
- Organizational culture is the repressibility of top management
- Organizational culture is key to success
- Talking about changes to the culture will change the culture
In the book “The Circle” where is Mae coming from, prior to the circle?
Mae;’s last job was at a utility company, that she didn’t like, because of the easy work, and the ugly burlap.
In the Book “The Circle” How did Mae get the job at the Circle?
Mae’s friend Annie, helped her get the job as ‘Customer Experience’ at the Circle.
In the book ‘the Circle’ What are some key features of the Circle’s natural and built environment (e.g., landscaping, interior design, etc.)? How do they work to convey certain norms, values, and beliefs that are unique to this organizational culture?
Circle is a social media company at heart, the campus is huge and built for the employees in mind, which a giant amount of positive and group activities, and things to do. The company works to make sure that their employees are connecting with each other as much as they can through social media, and through community.
Who are the initial figures that Mae encounters? How does her interaction with them work to convey those distinctive norms, values, and beliefs?
Mae found out that the people at Circle, especially the people she met from HR work to make sure their employees are talking to each other, and make sure that the community is strong through communication.
