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It also hugely affected how effective the organization recruits new employees, externally and internally, to the firm's new approaches. Because of its subterranean and pervasive nature, Schein suggests three levels on which the organizational culture establishes its presence:
Artifacts
Culture artifacts include the visible items in the organization like the technology, physical environment, and manifestations, which are clear and necessary. The environment of City Hall is an artifact of deeper cultural levels comparable to the visible behavior of the employees. Thus, technology is the visible behavior of City Hall's culture. In the organization's research and development division, its employees are working to minimize emission and energy consumption in the course of production. This means that efforts are focused on areas such as infrastructure (Taylor, 1912).
Values
Values determine and underlie behaviors even though they cannot be directly observed. Values are often expressed via norms, characterized by practicing the accepted behaviors and attitude. They are known as the written rules, which must be easily adopted by every employee. City Hall is a big organization, and the management faces new issues, tasks, and problems throughout the business. Thus, all the managers and most employees entitled to collective bargaining are subject to annual assessments and career development. This is part of the management development process. Such measures have helped in developing managers who can process personal and business...
While Taylorism differentiates mental work from manual work, organizational culture enhances productivity as it seeks to incorporate employee's experience, ideas, and knowledge for the realization of company's goals. The need to develop and uphold essential values within City Hall is critical in the realization of goals and objectives. Employees are always kept on check to ensure that the keep the good image established by the values.
Assumptions
City Hall's assumptions stem from values and are taken for granted, then later dropped out of awareness. Assumptions are a vital part of the organization's culture (Taylor, 1912). In this light, the management will discuss with the workforce about lazy employees and erect stringent controls to guarantee that people are busy at their desks. Thus, employee satisfactions will be the first vital role the organization will consider. At City Hall, employee surveys around satisfaction have been instrumental in management and organizational development. The purpose of the surveys was to evaluate the employee's feelings of dedication and identification with the public agency.
References
Taylor, F. (1912). Scientific Management. San Francisco: Westview Press.
Steven, J. (1989). Understanding Organizational Culture. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Alvesson, M. & Sveningsson, S. (2010). Changing Organizational Culture: Cultural Change Work in Progress. New York: Routledge
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