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A Primer on Organizational Culture
Wayne Smith, Ph.D.Department of
ManagementCSU Northridge
Rites and their practical and expressive consequences
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Student Success:Culture—Surface Attributes
• Physical Setting– Those things that physically surround people and provide them
with immediate sensory stimuli as they carry out culturally expressive activities
• Artifacts– Material objects manufactured by people to facilitate culturally
expressive activities• Language
– A particular manner in which members of a group use vocal sounds and written signs to convey meanings to each other
• Gesture– Movements of parts of the body used to express meanings
• Symbol– Any object, act, event, quality, or relation that serves as a vehicle
for conveying meaning, usually representing another thing• Story
– A narrative based on true events—often a combination of truth and fiction
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Student Success:Culture—Sub-Surface Attributes
• Legend– A handed-down narrative of some wonderful event that has a
historical basis but has been embellished with fictional details• Folk-tale
– A completely fictional narrative• Myth
– A dramatic narrative of imagined events, usually used to explain origins or transformations of something. Also, an unquestioned belief about the practical benefits of certain techniques and behaviors that is not supported by demonstrated facts
• Ritual– A standardized, detailed set of techniques and behaviors that
manages anxieties but seldom produces intended, practical consequences of any importance
• Rite– A relatively elaborate, dramatic, planned set of activities that
combines various forms of cultural expression and that often has both practical and expressive consequences
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Physical Setting
Those things that physically surround people and provide them with immediate sensory stimuli as
they carry out culturally expressive activities
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Cell Tower – “hidden” infra.
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LAPD Disp. - wide
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LAPD Disp. - scores
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Artifacts
Material objects manufactured by people to facilitate culturally
expressive activities
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VW car club
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In N Out burger -wide
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Language
A particular manner in which members of a group use vocal
sounds and written signs to convey meanings to each other
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Semantics – “Paradigm”
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Semantics – FAA “customers”
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Gesture
Movements of parts of the body used to express meanings
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Symbol
Any object, act, event, quality, or relation that serves as a vehicle for conveying meaning, usually
representing another thing
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Upside-down horseshoe
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SFVSC T-shirt
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Story
A narrative based on true events—often a combination of truth and
fiction
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Culture – United Rentals - 2
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Legend
A handed-down narrative of some wonderful event that has a
historical basis but has been embellished with fictional details
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Culture – United Rentals - 2
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Folk-tale
A completely fictional narrative
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Myth
A dramatic narrative of imagined events, usually used to explain
origins or transformations of something. Also, an unquestioned belief about the practical benefits
of certain techniques and behaviors that is not supported by
demonstrated facts
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Santa Anita – missing #13
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Ritual
A standardized, detailed set of techniques and behaviors that manages anxieties but seldom produces intended, practical
consequences of any importance
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Santa Anita – missing #13
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Rite
A relatively elaborate, dramatic, planned set of activities that
combines various forms of cultural expression and that often has both
practical and expressive consequences
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Santa Anita – missing #13
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Sources
• This presentation is adapted from the following article:– Beyer, J., and Trice, H. (1987), “How an
Organization’s Rites Reveal Its Culture”, Organizational Dynamics
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“Back-pocket” Slides
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Cultural Forms
• These “types” are neither– Mutually-exclusive, nor– Collectively-exhaustive
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Rites
• Rites of Passage• Rites of Degradation• Rites of Enhancement• Rites of Renewal• Rites of Conflict Resolution• Rites of Integration
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Rite of Passage
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Spelling – “Nosie/Noise”
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Rite of Degradation
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Spelling – “Nosie/Noise”
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Rite of Enhancement
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Rite of Renewal
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Rite of Conflict Resolution
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Spelling – “Nosie/Noise”
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Rite of Integration
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Social Consequences
• Practical Consequences– Evident
• A thorough evaluation of candidates’ potential and improvement in their administrative skills so that only the best qualified candidates are promoted to management positions
– Hidden• The relative priorities placed on various areas of
performance in the company are communicated and enforced;
• members of management who act as trainer sharpen and reinforce their own skills;
• new and old managers size up one another’s strengths and weaknesses
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Social Consequences
• Expressive Consequences– Evident
• The transformation of the successful candidate’s social identity among people both within and outside of the organization
– Hidden• The enhancement of the prestige of the
managerial role within the company;• the motivation of non-management
personnel to perform according to priorities;• the development of social and emotional
bonds among managers
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Managing Cultures
• At root, cultural skills are learned by experience, not learned by education
• A new manager needs to know “the ropes to skip and the ropes to know”
• A new manager needs to which aspect of culture to use when to achieve a personal or organizational goal
• “Boiling frog” syndrome