Mgt 304 Ch 14

System of shared beliefs that distinguish an org. How we do thing around here

• Methods of coping with success and failure
• Knowing ways of reaching golas

• - The creation of a collective identiry
• - Finding ways of working and living together

• Innovation
• Risk Taking- Value/encouragement or risk
• Stability Predictability/rule orientation
• People orientation
• Outcome Orientation
• Aggressiveness/Easigoingness
• Attention to Detail
• Collaborative Orientation
• Openness to communication options

• Represent the explicitly stated values and norms that are preferred by an organization
• Aspirations do not always produce the desired behaviors

The primary values that are accepted throughout the organization

Cultures existing in parts of an organization rather than throughout the organization

Groups whose values outwardly reject those of the larger organization

• Reinforce Corporate Identity
• Enhance Collective Commitment
• Provide a Stable Social Systems
• Reduce Bureacratic Control

• Rituals and ceremonies
• Well understood informal rules
• A belief that what employees and managers do is important

• Barriers to Change
• Barriers to Diversity
• Trying to change people's values from the top down

The process of creating new ideas and putting them into practice

• Idea Creation
• Initial Experimentation
• Feasibility Determination
• Final application

1. Focuses on the refinement of and reuse of exhisting products

2. Calls for freedom and radical thinking for change