H CH6 Culture Flashcards
subculture
subset of an org.’s members that identifies itself as a distinct group within the org. based on either similarity or familiarity
dominant subculture
- typically created by top- management
enhancing subculture
- supports the dominant culture’s values, beliefs..
orthogonal subculture
maintains independence from dominant subculture
counterculture
- overtly challenges the dominant subculture
constructive org. cultures
- around achievement, self-actualization, humanistic encouraging, affiliative norms
passive-defensive cultures
- embrace approval, conventional, dependent, and avoidance norms
aggressive-defensive cultures
- oppositional, power, competitive, and perfectionistic norms
artifacts
- manifestations or expressions of same cultural core that produces and maintains the values and norms
what is cultural strength related to?
- org. performance
org. primary strategy
protect its identity
- develops secondary strategies that serve it
secondary strategies
- instrumental
- expressive
instrumental strategies
- operational in nature, direct attention to the attainment of specific measurable objectives, like defined by modernist
expressive strategies
- derive from symbolic perspective, protect stability and coherence of sharing meaning, so that members can maintain a collective self-concept and offer a recognizable identity to the outside world
apparent change
- org. formulates and implements its secondary strategies from within the confines of its existing culture and the primary strategy of protecting its identity
revolutionary change
- strategy is imposed by outsiders which destroys much of the culture’s pre-existing symbolism
- introduction of new symbols
Incremental change
- deep and lasting cultural change
- strategy is different but not incompatible with existing assumptions and values
institutional logics
- socially constructed, historical patterns of material practices etc. …
institutional field
community of org. that partake of a common meaning system
