Chapter 3. Functionalist Diagnosis of Organizational CultureArtifacts and Values in a Department -- The Artifact Level: A Stratified Paper Pyramid -- The Value Level: Means -- The Value Level: Power and Status -- Summary of the Value Level -- Basic...
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Chapter 3. Functionalist Diagnosis of Organizational CultureArtifacts and Values in a Department -- The Artifact Level: A Stratified Paper Pyramid -- The Value Level: Means -- The Value Level: Power and Status -- Summary of the Value Level -- Basic Assumptions in the Department -- The Method of the Analysis of Basic Assumptions -- Nobody Does it Better than We Do! -- The Members of the Organization are at the Center! -- This Belongs to Us! -- The Organization�s Members are Able and Ready to Passively Adapt Themselves! Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Culture in Organization Theory -- Position within Organizational Theory -- Culture as a New Metaphor -- Culture as a New Approach -- Contribution to Organizational Theory -- Cultural Diversity -- Variable or Metaphor -- Integration, Differentiation and Ambiguity -- Rationalism, Functionalism and Symbolism -- Choice of Competing Perspectives -- Functionalism and Symbolism -- Empirical Field of Study -- Choice of Focus -- Empirical Material -- Chapter 2. A Functionalist Perspective There is only One Truth, which Can Be Discovered from WithinThe Organization Members Constitute a Family which Works -- The Cultural Paradigm -- The Core of the Cultural Paradigm -- Consistency and Inconsistency of the Cultural Paradigm -- Tracing Backwards from Basic Assumptions -- Relations between Basic Assumptions and Values -- Inconsistency between Values and Basic Assumptions -- Consistency between Values and Basic Assumptions -- Unclarity between Values and Basic Assumptions -- A Mixed Culture The Functions of Organizational CultureThe Functional Existence of Culture -- The Functional Explanation of Culture -- The Functions of Organizational Culture -- The Levels of Culture -- Three Levels of Culture -- Internal Relations between the Levels of Culture -- The Cultural Paradigm -- Relations between Cultural Levels and their Functions -- Sorting out Cultural Data -- The Specific Functions of Organizational Culture -- A Functionalist Analytical Model: The Funnel -- Subcultures in Organizations -- A Clinical versus Ethnographic Method The Effects of Artifacts in Relation to Values and Basic AssumptionsConsequences for the Functionalist Funnel Model -- The Diagnosis of Organizational Culture -- Chapter 4. A Symbolic Perspective -- Symbolism -- The Creation of Meaning -- Symbols: The Expression of Meaning -- Symbols in a Semiotic Context -- The Multidimensional Reality -- Culture as System -- A Multiplicity of Interpretations -- Webs of Meaning -- Symbols -- Physical Symbols: Objects -- Behavioral Symbols: Rituals -- Verbal Symbols: Myths, Sagas and Stories -- Patterns between Symbols
