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It shows the number of culture types and shapes that are commonly seen in organizations. There is the unitary, the diverse/integrated, the diverse/differentiated, the diverse/fragmented and the disorganized. The first and the last are the most basic in terms of form. Unitary basically means a monolithic culture with no variations. A disorganized culture is one with subunits that are not the least big organized around any sort of dominant culture. The other three, those being integrated, differentiated and fragmented, are all similar, yet different. The most unified is the integrated. In that case, there is the dominant and lesser cultures but they are all broadly unified within the same locus area. In other words, the subcultures do not work against the larger culture. In the case of diverse, there are subcultures that exist within the larger culture but they are not all linked together within broader culture, such as is the case with the integrated. There may be some subcultures that work together well but this is not true across the board. Differentiated is sort of between integrated and fragmented. There is more subcultural unity than fragmented and there is a dominant culture but the integration is not as strong and prevalent as it is with an integrated culture. A family company with a small employee base could be a common example of a unitary company. Religious organizations would often be the same. By contrast, a firm with no dominant culture would be disorganized. Any other firm of size with a dominant culture would be somewhere in between (Cheney, 2011).
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