This chapter is talking about the organizational cultures. There is no standard definition of the concept, but most people would probably agree that organizational culture includes these characteristics: holistic, historically determined, related to the things anthropologiests study, socially constructed, soft and difficulto change. Besides this, according to the IBM studies and the IRIC Project, there are sixdimensions of organizational cultures. They are:
- Process oriented vs. results oriented
- Employee oriented vs. job oriented
- Parochial vs. professional
- Open system vs. closed system
- Loose vs. tight control
- Normative vs. pragmatic
Different dimension oppposes different concern, for example, dimension one opposes a concern with means to a concern with goals. Dimenion 2 shows a concern for people ot a concern for completing the job. Some dimensions were associated with values but some not.
From this chapter, I learn more about culture from the organizational perspective. Somehow it reminded me of what I learned in Ethnography class. Ethnography is about considering a group of people as a community, then we can use different research methods to know the culture of the community.
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