This is an outline of EH Shein (1999) The Corporate Culture Survival Guide published by John Wiley and Sons. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are outlined in terms of their content and the subcategories under the primary headings. This is an outline of EH Shein (1999) The Corporate Culture Survival Guide published by John Wiley and Sons. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are outlined in terms of their content and the subcategories under the primary headings.
¶ … Schien (1999) the Corporate Culture Survival Guide
Culture content and surviving in the external environment
Mission, Strategy and Goals
Development of assumptions
Sense of mission and identity
Cultural moral of story: Acquisition strategy has to fit existing culture
Over organizational history learning by organization of effective
Complexity of Cultural Analysis due to shared mission and strategic intent
F. Variations in unit organization to achieve mission and strategy
G. Error-detection systems in the organization
F. Actions when discovering important goals are not being met
G. Variation among organizational parts in measure and actions to take on results
New Leaders in the Organization
Organizational culture
Destroy existing culture by ridding organization of key culture carriers;
B. Fight existing culture by forcing their own beliefs, values and assumption on the members of the organization.
C. Cave in to the existing culture abandoning their own beliefs, values and assumptions.
D. Evoke the culture by at first adapting long enough to understands how to get things accomplished and imposition of new rules and behaviors in a gradual manner that are based on differing beliefs, values and assumptions.
2. Subcultures
A. Subculture issues highlighted at the time of accidents.
B. Subculture issues important in mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures.
C. Blending of various technologies and subcultures.
D. Culture issue in older company that is maladapted is how to engage in transformations that are massive under pressure and avoiding economic damage that is serious.
E. Process of transformation
F. Asking where culture resides
G. Common group experiences and cultural formation
H. Levels of culture in the organization
I. The individual is a multicultural entity able to display different cultural behaviors depending on the situation.
J. The unconscious quality of culture is what makes culture so powerful.
3. Culture matters: because it is "powerful, tacit and unconscious and determines both individual and collective behavior.
A. Values and thought patterns of leaders are determined in part by individual cultural backgrounds and shared experiences.
B. Understanding the role played by culture to make organization more efficient and effective.
C. Making leaders aware of unique role as creators of culture, evolvers of culture and managers of culture.
E. The more questions that are asked the more inconsistencies will be exposed.
4. Shared tacit assumptions
A. Need to think historically about organization
B. Culture's essence is values and beliefs that are learned in shared experiences.
C. Reason culture is difficult to change because it represents shared learning of group along with "ways of thinking, feeling, and perceiving the world." (p.28)
D. Understanding why culture cannot be measured.
E. Understanding why there is no wrong or right culture.
F. Culture as a pattern of assumptions
G. Multidimensionality in assessing culture's strengths and weaknesses.
5. Complexity of Culture
A. Number of dimensions
B. Interconnection of dimensions
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