LDR - 302S Organizational Culture All Answers Correct

LDR - 302S Organizational Culture All Answers Correct Organizational Culture ️️The shared social knowledge within an organization regarding the rules, norms, and values that shape the attitudes and behaviors of its employees Culture ️️is social knowledge among members of the organization. Culture ️️tells employees what the rules, norms, and values are within the organization Organizational culture ️️shapes and reinforces certain employee attitudes and behaviors by creating a system of control over employees Three overarching components ️️Observable artifacts Espoused values Basic underlying assumptions Observable artifacts ️️the manifestations of an organization's culture that employees can easily see or talk about. Numerous types/examples of artifacts Observable artifacts-Symbols ️️can be found throughout an organization, from its corporate logo to the images it places on its Web site to the uniforms its employees wear. Nike's swoosh Observable artifacts-Physical structures ️️include the organization's buildings and internal office designs. Montgomery Ward Espoused values ️️the beliefs, philosophies, and norms that a company explicitly states Espoused values ️️Published documents Statements made to employees Nordstrom Rule #1 Statements made to organizational outsiders Mission and vision statements Culture strength ️️Degree to which employees definitively agree about the way things are supposed to happen within the organization and when their subsequent behaviors are consistent with those expectations Subcultures ️️A smaller subset of the organization's employees Subcultures ️️Could exist around numerous dimensions, some "structural," and some not Subcultures ️️Faultlines - basis of division, particularly in cases of "non-structural" groupings Basic underlying assumptions ️️Taken-for-granted beliefs and philosophies that are so ingrained that employees simply act on them rather than questioning the validity of their behavior in a given situation.