B MGT 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Adhocracy, Onboarding
Organizational Culture, Socialization, And Mentoring
Organizational Culture
• The set of shared, taken-for-granted implicit assumptions that a group holds and that
determines how it perceives, thinks about, and reacts to its various environments
Characteristics of Organizational Culture:
• Shared concept
• Learned over time
• Influences our behavior at work
• Impacts outcomes at multiple levels
Organizational Culture
• Drivers of Culture
o The founder's values
o The industry and business environment
o The national culture
o The organization's vision and strategies
o The behavior of leaders
Levels of Organizational Culture:
• Artifacts
o The physical aifestatio of a orgaizatio’s culture
• Espoused Values
o Explicitly stated values and norms that are preferred by an organization
• Enacted Values
o Values and norms that are actually exhibited or converted into employee behavior
• Basic Underlying Assumptions
o Organizational values that have become so taken for granted over time that they
become assumptions that guide organizational behavior
Types of Organizational Culture:
Clan Culture
• Companies with a clan culture have an internal focus and they value flexibility rather than
stability and control
• Effectiveness achieved by encouraging collaboration, trust, and support
• Employee-focused
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Document Summary
Organizational culture: the set of shared, taken-for-granted implicit assumptions that a group holds and that determines how it perceives, thinks about, and reacts to its various environments. Organizational culture: drivers of culture, the founder"s values, the industry and business environment, the national culture, the organization"s vision and strategies, the behavior of leaders. Clan culture: companies with a clan culture have an internal focus and they value flexibility rather than stability and control, effectiveness achieved by encouraging collaboration, trust, and support, employee-focused. Adhocracy culture: external focus and value flexibility, creation of new products and services, culture is adaptable, creative, and fast to respond to the marketplace. Market culture: strong external focus and value stability and control, competition, strong desire to deliver results and accomplish goals. Internal focus: formalized and structured work environment, values stability and control over flexibility, efficiency, timeliness, and reliability.
