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'Organization culture is a variable that can be controlled and manipulated like any other organizational variable'. Critically discuss this view of culture and organization.
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'Organization culture is a variable that can be controlled and manipulated like any other organizational variable'. Critically discuss this view of culture and organization. In order to examine culture change, it is important to define what "culture" is. Unfortunately, there is some confusion as to its modern meaning. Schneider and Rentsch (1987) make a clear distinction between "climate" and "culture" (climate meaning the ways things are done in the organisation and culture being why they are done that way). Deal and Kennedy (1982) take the more pragmatic view that culture is simply 'the way we do things around here'. But there seems to be no consensus on the definition of culture. Indeed, it has been noted that in organisation theory, there are as many definitions of culture as there are experts on the subject (Ogbonna, 1990). The most clear cut explanation found, defines culture as the interweaving of the individual into a...
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