Organisational culture

WORK, ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIETY
4SSMN134
INDEPENDENT LEARNING

TOPIC:
ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE
Consider the following questions and develop answers to them
ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE
1. Choose an organisation that you are interested in / familiar with. Analyse and describe the organisation’s culture using Johnson et al.’s Cultural Web.
2. How might changes to the following factors alter the culture of an organisation, if at all? You may use examples to illustrate your answer.

a. Rewards
b. Symbols
c. Routines
3. Choose two of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions below, and using examples, explain if and how national culture can shape organisational culture.

1. Power distance
2. Individualism versus collectivism
3. Uncertainty avoidance
4. Masculinity versus femininity