Chapter 10 Response

This chapter deals with organizational culture and working roles in different countries. I found it interesting that different cultures value completely different tenets for the way that employees complete their work. I thought it was noteworthy that HGBV in the Netherlands valued social adaptation over quality of work and that they considered rules to be flexible. The idea that hierarchy and rules are not important is very different from what we see here in the United States, so it was interesting to read about a company that was able to run successfully. I also enjoyed reading about the differences in organizational and national cultures and the ways in which our mental processes are formed and change from the way we were taught as children. I also agreed with the IRIC project that showed that shared perceptions should be at the core of an organization's structure--I think many different companies could do much better if they were to adopt these principles as their own.