Ncoa Mod 2 Set B: Organizational Culture

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Behavior and Artifacts

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Two of the most visual ways we can characterize culture. This is the observable number of culture and consists of behavior patterns and outward manifestations of culture: privileges provided to executive, dress code, level of technology see you utilized, and the physical layout of workspaces. Artifacts and behavior also may tell us what a group is doing, but not why.

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Values

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This level of culture underlie and to a large extent determine behavior, but they are not directly observable as behaviors are. People will attribute their behavior to stated values.

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Assumptions and Beliefs

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This is one of the deepest level of culture. Assumptions grow out of values, until they become taken for granted and drop out of awareness.

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Food for Thought

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Values and norms, once transmitted through the organization, establish the permanence of the organizations culture.

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Cultural Forms and Linking Mechanisms

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Cultural forms function the linking a mechanism by which networks of understanding develop among employees they also enable leaders to transmit messages about desirable culture to influence thinking of ways of behaving. Cultural forms also addressed emotional aspects of organizations that are commonly referred to as cohesion and camaraderie.

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Cultural forms

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Rite, ceremonial, ritual, myth, Saga, legend, story, folktale, symbol, language, gesture, physical, and artifact.

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Rite

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Relatively elaborate, dramatic, planned set of activities that consolidate various forms of cultural expression into one event, which is carried out to social interactions, usually for the benefit of an audience.

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Ceremonial

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A system of several rites connected with a single occasion or event.

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Ritual

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A standard, detailed set of techniques and behaviors that manage anxieties, but seldom produce intended, technical consequences of practical importance

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Myth

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A dramatic narrative of imagined events usually use explain origins of transformations of something.

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Saga

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A historical narrative describing the unique accomplishments of a group and its leaders usually in heroic terms

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Legend

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A handed-down narrative of some wonderful event based in history embellished with fictional details.

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Story

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A narrative based on true events-often a combination of truth and fiction

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Folktale

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A fictional narrative

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Symbol

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Any object, act, event, quality, or relation that serves as a vehicle for conveying meaning, usually by representing another thing.

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Language

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A particular form or manner in which members of a group use vocal sounds and written signs to convey meanings to each other.

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Gestures

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Movements of parts of the body used to express meanings

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Physical

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Those things that surround people in a physical setting and provide them with immediate sensory stimuli as a carry out culturally expressive activities

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Artifact

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Material objects manufactured by people to facilitate culturally expressive activities.

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Leaders detect desirable and undesirable characteristics of Organizational culture

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Leaders must first possess a clear understanding of the strategic objectives for the organization and identify the actions needed to reach those objective.

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Strategies for transforming cultures in organizations

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The key is to teach symbolically. This strategy includes they are for crafting a new stories, new symbols, new traditions, and new humor so the ambiguity surrounding the organization life can be productively managed by all members of the organization.