H CH6 Culture Flashcards
1
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subculture
A
subset of an org.’s members that identifies itself as a distinct group within the org. based on either similarity or familiarity
2
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dominant subculture
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- typically created by top- management
3
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enhancing subculture
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- supports the dominant culture’s values, beliefs..
4
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orthogonal subculture
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maintains independence from dominant subculture
5
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counterculture
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- overtly challenges the dominant subculture
6
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constructive org. cultures
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- around achievement, self-actualization, humanistic encouraging, affiliative norms
7
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passive-defensive cultures
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- embrace approval, conventional, dependent, and avoidance norms
8
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aggressive-defensive cultures
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- oppositional, power, competitive, and perfectionistic norms
9
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artifacts
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- manifestations or expressions of same cultural core that produces and maintains the values and norms
10
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what is cultural strength related to?
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- org. performance
11
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org. primary strategy
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protect its identity
- develops secondary strategies that serve it
12
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secondary strategies
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- instrumental
- expressive
13
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instrumental strategies
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- operational in nature, direct attention to the attainment of specific measurable objectives, like defined by modernist
14
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expressive strategies
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- 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
15
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apparent change
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- org. formulates and implements its secondary strategies from within the confines of its existing culture and the primary strategy of protecting its identity
