Lecture Week Eight Organisational Culture

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Lecture Week EightOrganisational Culture

• Origins of
• Current Interest
• Organisational Climate
• National Culture
• HRM
• Explaining Performance
• Contents of an
• Organisational
• Culture

• Artifacts
• Beliefs, Values and Attitudes
• Basic Assumptions
• The Sources of
• Organisational
• Culture
• The Societal or National Culture

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Organisational Culture

• The Vision of
• Management
• The Type of
• Company and
• Industry
• Hofstedes
• Analysis of
• National culture

• Power distance
• Individualism/ Collectivism
• Masculinity/ Femininity
• Uncertainty Avoidance
• Leadership and
• Organisational
• The Business
• Environment

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Organisational Culture

• Stakeholders
• Customers
• The Government
• The Public
• The Functions of
• Organisational
• Culture
• Conflict
• Reduction
• Co-ordination
• and Control

• Reduction of
• Uncertainty
• Competitive
• Advantage
• Typologies of
• Organisational
• Culture
• The Harrison/
• Handy Typology

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Organisational Culture

• 1)Power Culture
• (The Web)
• 2)Role Culture
• (Greek Temple)
• 3)Task Culture
• (Lattice)
• 4)Person Culture
• (Cluster)

• 1) Single source of power, Zeus type culture.
  Dependent on Trust. Empathy and Personal
  Communication
• Few Rules/Quick
• Reaction.
• Importance of
• People at the
• Centre

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Organisational Culture

• This culture is
• often tough,
• abrasive and more
• interested in the
• ends than the
• means used.
• 2) A Bureaucracy,
• the organising
• principles are
• logic and
• rationality

• Rules and
• Procedures and
• Job descriptions
• Dominate. The
• Civil Service, the
• Oil Industry are
• often cited as
• examples of Role
• Culture
• Associated with
• Apollo (Reason)

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Organisational Culture

• 3) Power
• somewhat diffuse,
• often develops
• where specific
• jobs or projects in
• which teams
• develop
• Focus on
• accomplishing the
• job in hand

• Flexibility,
• adaptability,
• individual
• autonomy and
• mutual respect
• based on ability
• rather than age or
• status.
• Associated with
• Athena
• Advertising
• Agencies

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Organisational Culture

• 4) Group of
• people decide
• that it is in their
• best interest to
• organise on a
• collective rather
• than an
• individual basis.
• Examples include
• Barristers,
• Doctors.

• Such
• organisations
• exist solely for the
• individuals who
• compromise it.
• Associated with
• Dionysus (the god
• of the self-
• orientated
• individual

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Organisational Culture

• Deal and Kennedy
• (1982)
• The Tough-Guy,
• Macho Culture
• The Work
• Hard/Play Hard
• Culture
• Bet-your
• Company Culture

• The Process
• Culture
• Links to
• Organisational
• Design and
• Structure
• Linking Culture to
• Change
• Management
• Programmes

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Organisational Culture

• Motivating
• Change
• Creating a Vision
• Managing the Transition
• Sustaining Momentum
• Overcoming
• Resistance to
• Change

• Company
• Examples
• The Emerging and
• Future Debates
• Organisational
• Culture and New
• Forms of HRM
• Conclusions