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    Corporate Culture Fundamentals
    Corporate Culture Fundamentals
    Corporate Culture Fundamentals
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    Corporate Culture Fundamentals

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    Where Does Culture Reside? Culture is a property of a group.
    Whenever a group has enough common experience, a culture
    begins to form. One finds cultures at the level of small teams,
    families, and work groups. Cultures are found at every
    hierarchical level. Culture exists at the level of the whole
    organization if there is sufficient shared history. That is why
    understanding of corporate or organizational culture becomes an
    integral part of the understanding of the organization itself.
     
    It is even found at the level of a whole industry because of
    the shared occupational backgrounds of the people
    industry-wide. Finally, culture exists at the level of regions and
    nations because of common language, ethnic background,
    religion, and shared experience. But if you spend the bulk of
    your life in a given occupation and organization, you not only
    take on many of the cultural themes that others in the
    occupation or organization share, but they can very well be well
    formed assumptions and may elude your awareness. And there
    lies the real power of culture, this unconscious quality for sure!!
     
    You are not aware of your cultural biases until someone
    challenges them or until you have offended someone with a
    different cultural background. Having thought broadly about
    culture, it is now time to think more precisely about how to
    define culture, how to assess it, and how to begin to evolve it.
     
    Questions to be pondered upon
    As you begin to think about culture, think about it first in your
    own personality:
    Review your family, ethnic, national, and educational
    background to identify the major influences on your current
    values and ways of doing things.
    Review your current formal and informal group affiliations to
    identify what current norms and values matter to you.
    Think about your place of work, its history, and traditions
    and see how that relates to your own values and ways of
    doing things.
     
    The discussion here is directed towards undergraduate as well
    as postgraduate students, academics and practitioners interested
    in corporate culture and the changes in leadership, management
    consultancy, corporate culture. The discussion in the subsequent
    sections here is to investigate and discuss a range of questions
    such as:
    How do managers, consultants and HRM people work with
    cultural change projects? How do they design and execute
    such projects? How do they think, get information and follow
    up their work? Is there a set of shared meanings making
    coordinated work possible or are there varieties of
    interpretations and meanings among those engaged in the
    change work producing difficulties? ?
    What is happening in terms of processes? Are the intentions
    of the design of change projects realized in the
    implementation events? Are instruments of change used as
    intended? How do those involved in these processes, for
    example the managers and employees seen as the recipients
    and carriers of change initiatives, make sense of this and
    what do they do?
    What are the outcomes in terms of responses and
    consequences? Is it possible that changes those initially
    intended or are the consequences unforeseen? If there are
    no changes, how can this be understood?
    What can be learned about culture change projects and
    other forms of organizational changes? What are the traps
    and problems? What do managers, consultants, HRM people
    and other people involved need to consider in planning,
    designing, executing and learning from such projects?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntroBooks
    Release dateNov 3, 2019
    ISBN9781393648284

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      Corporate Culture Fundamentals

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      PREFACE

      Where Does Culture Reside? Culture is a property of a group. Whenever a group has enough common experience, a culture begins to form. One finds cultures at the level of small teams, families, and work groups. Cultures are found at every hierarchical level. Culture exists at the level of the whole organization if there is sufficient shared history. That is why understanding of corporate or organizational culture becomes an integral part of the understanding of the organization itself.

      It is even found at the level of a whole industry because of the shared occupational backgrounds of the people industry-wide. Finally, culture exists at the level of regions and nations because of common language, ethnic background, religion, and shared experience. But if you spend the bulk of your life in a given occupation and organization, you not only take on many of the cultural themes that others in the occupation or organization share, but they can very well be well formed assumptions and may elude your awareness. And there lies the real power of culture, this unconscious quality for sure!!

      You are not aware of your cultural biases until someone challenges them or until you have offended someone with a different cultural background. Having thought broadly about culture, it is now time to think more precisely about how to define culture, how to assess it, and how to begin to evolve it.

      Questions to be pondered upon

      As you begin to think about culture, think about it first in your own personality:

      Review your family, ethnic, national, and educational background to identify the major influences on your current values and ways of doing things.

      Review your current formal and informal group affiliations to identify what current norms and values matter to you.

      Think about your place of work, its history, and traditions and see how that relates to your own values and ways of doing things.

      The discussion here is directed towards undergraduate as well as postgraduate students, academics and practitioners interested in corporate culture and the changes in leadership, management consultancy, corporate culture. The discussion in the subsequent sections here is to investigate and discuss a range of questions such as:

      How do managers,

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