Summary People in Business and Society overview lecture slides 7-12 EXCLUSIVE NOTES

People in Business and Society
Lecture slides 7-12

Lecture 7: Organizational culture and cultural change
Organizational culture
“the way people perceive what goes on in their organizational environment” (Hofstede, 2011: 3)

“A pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external
adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be considered valid and,
therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to
those problems.” (Schein, 1984: 3)

Trompenaars’ four organizational cultures:




Organizational change:
What kind of organizational culture would you promote?
Describe the core value to would promote
What would you do to reach that goal?
What is the major obstacle?
- Name one core value that you would change
- What would you change in the assumptions?
- Relationship to environment
- Nature of reality and truth
- Nature of human nature
- Nature of human activity
- Nature of human relationships
How would you promote the changes?



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