PSYCH238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jeffrey Skilling, Reward System, Organizational Culture
22 Nov 2017
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Person individuals are predisposed to behave in certain ways. Shapes and reinforces certain employee attitudes and behaviours by creating a system of control over employees. The strong culture concept: a strong culture is an organizational culture with intense and pervasive beliefs, values, and assumptions. Depends in how intense and widespread the beliefs are ex. Advantages: facilitate desired behaviours among employees, allows employees to identify themselves with the organization. Disadvantages: makes merging with another organization more difficult, makes adapting to the environment more difficult, attracts similar kinds of employees, thereby limiting diversity of thought: great consensus. In weak cultures, beliefs, values, and assumptions are less strongly ingrained or less widely shared across the organization. Less cohesion, organizational policies have less impact on organizational members. Ssocialization: the primary process by which employees learn the social knowledge that enables them to understand and adapt to the organization"s culture. Teach you about the job, what is your responsibility,
