ADMS 2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Calgary Stampede, Indian Act, W. M. Keck Observatory
30 Apr 2018
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ADMS 2320 Lecture 9 Notes – How a Culture Begins
Introduction
• A orgaizatio’s urret ustos, traditios, ad geeral ay of doig thigs are
largely due to what it has done before and how successful it was in doing it.
• This leads us to the ultiate soure of a orgaizatio’s ulture: the fouders.
• Free of previous customs or ideologies, founders have a vision of what the organization
should e, ad the fir’s sall size akes it easy to ipose that isio o all
organizational members.
• In the case of the Calgary Stampede, early founders were willing to fight much larger
political and legal systems, including the Indian Act itself, to ensure that Aboriginal
people could participate in the event.
• This philosophy would have sent a very strong message to Stampede workers
• Volunteers, reinforcing their culture of inclusion in a time period not known for
tolerance in general and certainly not distinguished by any widespread inclusion of
Aboriginal cultures and people.
• Culture creation occurs in three ways.
• First, founders only hire and keep employees who think and feel the way they do.
• Second, they indoctrinate and socialize employees to their way of thinking and feeling.
• Fially, the fouders’ o ehaiour eourages eployees to identify with the
founders and thereby internalize those beliefs, values, and assumptions.
• Whe the orgaizatio sueeds, the fouders’ persoality eoes eedded i the
culture.
• The culture at Toronto-based PCL, the largest general contracting organization in
Canada, is still strongly influenced by the vision of Ernest Poole, who founded the
company in 1906.
• Poole’s rules, hih ilude Eploy highest grade people otaiale ad
Eourage itegrity, loyalty ad effiieies, still ifluence the way the company hires
ad trais its eployees log after the fouder’s death.
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