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