COM 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sensemaking, Onboarding, Systems Theory
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3 views of organization culture: practical view, interpretive view, critical & postmodern view critical & postmodern view integration(military ranking), differentiation(subcultural) & fragmentation. organizational socialization surprise & sense-making. Socialization people learn the rules, norms & expectation of a culture over time & thereby become members of the culture. Critical and postmodern views focus on challenges to power relationships and the status quo. Differentiation perspective: highlights differences across organizational units or subcultures, which portrays cultural manifestations as predominantly inconsistent with one or another the writing of culture ethnography. The systems approach emphasizes the difference between a disconnected set of parts versus a collection of parts that work together to create a functional whole. Open systems theory encourages individuals, departments, and organizations to be mindful of the overall health of their industry environment. How do organizations survive today? must engage in environmental scanning; failure to do so leaves them open to environmental jolts.
