Slide 1 : ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE A system of shared meaning within an organization that determines, in large degree, how employees act.
Slide 2 : DIMENSIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
Slide 3 : INNOVATION AND RISK TAKING The degree to which employees are encouraged to be innovative and to take risks.
Slide 4 : Attention to Detail The degree to which employees are expected to exhibit precision, analysis, and attention to detail.
Slide 5 : outcome orientation The degree to which managers focus on results or outcomes rather than on the techniques and processes used to achieve those outcomes.
Slide 6 : PEOPLE ORIENTATION The degree to which management decisions take into consideration the effect of outcomes on people within the organization.
Slide 7 : Team Orientation The degree to which work activities are organized around teams rather than individuals.
Slide 8 : AGGRESSIVENESS The degree to which people are aggressive and competitive rather than easygoing and cooperative.
Slide 9 : STABILITY The degree to which organizational activities emphasize maintaining the status quo in contrast to growth.
Slide 10 : How Employees Learn Culture
Slide 11 : STORIES It is a narrative of significant events or people including such things as the organization’s founders, rule breaking, rags-to-riches successes, reductions in the workforce, relocation of employees, reactions to past mistakes, and organizational coping.
Slide 12 : RITUALS Rituals are repetitive sequences of activities that express and reinforce the key values of the organization, what goals are most important, which people are important, and which is expendable.
Slide 13 : Material Symbols Includes the layout of an organization’s facilities, dress attire, the types of automobiles top executives are provided, the presence or absence of corporate aircraft, size of offices, the elegance of furnishings, executive “perks”, existence of employee lounges, etc.
Slide 14 : LANGUAGE To identify members of a culture EXAMPLES: big iron – mainframe computers hypo – a high-potential employee ASAP – as soon as possible PROFS – Professional Office Systems, IBM’s internal electronic mail system
Slide 15 : The Organization and its Environment ENVIRONMENT Refers to outside institutions or forces that potentially affect an organization’s performance.
Slide 16 : THE ORGANIZATION customers competitors Government Public Pressure Groups suppliers Political Social Technological Economic Global