Tutorial 4 – Understanding Organisations: Theory and
Practice: Organisational Culture
The Concept of Organisational culture: Why Bother?
Culture is an abstraction, yet the forces that are created in social and
organisational situations that derive from culture are powerful. If we don’t
understand the operation of these forces, we become victim to them. To
illustrate how the concept of culture helps to illuminate organisational
situations, I will begin by describing several situations I have encountered in
my experience as a consultant (Part of the extract)
Consultant’s job: Offer advice and expertise to organisations
- Made suggestions but people’s behaviour did not change (regards to the
extract)
o Where would you make a change? Start From the higher level (Senior
managers) to the lowest level (Employees) of organisational level
Reviewing organisational culture
Question
The question featured in one of the 2017 exams:
- Analyse based on your personal observations, the organisational
culture of UTS Business: identify symbols and artefacts and try to
identify the values and assumptions they stand for
How would you answer this question?
- Diversity:
o Represented by the sub cultures and building and people
wearing different types of clothing people etc.
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Practice: Organisational Culture
The Concept of Organisational culture: Why Bother?
Culture is an abstraction, yet the forces that are created in social and
organisational situations that derive from culture are powerful. If we don’t
understand the operation of these forces, we become victim to them. To
illustrate how the concept of culture helps to illuminate organisational
situations, I will begin by describing several situations I have encountered in
my experience as a consultant (Part of the extract)
Consultant’s job: Offer advice and expertise to organisations
- Made suggestions but people’s behaviour did not change (regards to the
extract)
o Where would you make a change? Start From the higher level (Senior
managers) to the lowest level (Employees) of organisational level
Reviewing organisational culture
Question
The question featured in one of the 2017 exams:
- Analyse based on your personal observations, the organisational
culture of UTS Business: identify symbols and artefacts and try to
identify the values and assumptions they stand for
How would you answer this question?
- Diversity:
o Represented by the sub cultures and building and people
wearing different types of clothing people etc.
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