COM 301 UTAMPA CHPT 4

Excellent Cultures

a prescriptive view of organizational culture that focuses on action , close customer relations, autonomy, entrepreneurship ,productivity, and focus

Strong Cultures

A prescriptive view of organizational culture that focuses on values, beliefs, heroes, rites, rituals, and networks.

descriptive approach to culture

A view of organizational culture that identifies culture as the emerging—and sometimes fragmented—values, practices, narratives, and artifacts that make a particular organization what it is.

Feedback

Information that helps to facilitate the interdependent functioning of system components

Strength

The ability of network links to endured within a specific exchange or over a long period of time

Sensemaking

The cycles in which organizational members introduce and react to ideas that helps to make sense of the equivocal information environment

Equifinality

The idea that a system can reach the same final state from differing initial conditions and by a variety of paths.

Exchange

The requirement for the input of materials and information in a system and the output transformed materials and information with the environment outside the system.

Equivocality

The unpredictability inherent in the information environment of an organization.

deviation-amplifying feedback

information that serves to change system functioning through growth and development

deviation-reducing feedback

information that serves to keep organizational functioning on a steady course

cultural performance

interactional, contextual, episodic, and improvisational interactions that create and recreate organizational cultures

Cultural Fragmentation

multiple manifestations of organizational culture that are difficult to interpret

environment

the non-physical environment within a organization that does not exist in an objective manner, but created through everyday organizing processes.

Enactment of Information

the process of individuals creating the environment that confronts them through social interaction and sensemaking

Systems Metaphor

understanding of organizations as complex organisms that must interact with their environment to survive

symmetry

when two nodes in a network link have the same kind of relationship with each other