Organizational Culture (& Modern Art) Jeff McNeill – 2007 University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Copyright © Jeff McNeill – This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License

Organizational Culture – Agenda Comes from Anthropology the Study of Culture Different from National Culture Six Dimensions of Organizational Culture Process vs. Results Employee vs. Job Parochial vs. Professional Open vs. Closed System Loose vs. Tight Control Normative vs. Pragmatic http://tinyurl.com/48b4o http://tinyurl.com/4dqmz

Comes from Anthropology

the Study of Culture

Different from National Culture

Six Dimensions of Organizational Culture

Process vs. Results

Employee vs. Job

Parochial vs. Professional

Open vs. Closed System

Loose vs. Tight Control

Normative vs. Pragmatic

About Modern Art Modern Art Too many definitions! About people in groups Artists Seen as individuals The “romantic” notion of creative genius Movements Artists who work in similar styles at same times Shared themes, techniques, meanings http://tinyurl.com/4ngcs Caspar David Friedrich

Modern Art

Too many definitions!

About people in groups

Artists

Seen as individuals

The “romantic” notion of creative genius

Movements

Artists who work in similar styles at same times

Shared themes, techniques, meanings

About Organizational Culture & National Culture Culture Too many definitions! About people in groups National culture = “values” They way things “should be” Normative Organizational culture = “practices” The way things “are” “How we do things around here” Descriptive http://tinyurl.com/4ngcs http://tinyurl.com/6hmas

Culture

Too many definitions!

About people in groups

National culture = “values”

They way things “should be”

Normative

Organizational culture = “practices”

The way things “are”

“How we do things around here”

Descriptive

Process vs. Results Process Orientation How things are done The way we do things Results Orientation What gets done Outcome Output Process Results Bridget Riley Op Art Joseph Beuys Performance Art

Process Orientation

How things are done

The way we do things

Results Orientation

What gets done

Outcome

Output

Employee vs. Job Concern for Employee Employee satisfaction Concern for Job Job Completion Employee Job http://tinyurl.com/5n7qm http://tinyurl.com/6qndf http://tinyurl.com/448md Jackson Pollock Abstractionism http://tinyurl.com/6qxro http://tinyurl.com/5qt5z

Concern for Employee

Employee satisfaction

Concern for Job

Job Completion

Parochial vs. Professional Parochial Indentity taken from being in the organization Professional Indentity from outside organization Parochial Professional Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (pre-Modern) Gustave Courbet (first Modern)

Parochial

Indentity taken from being in the organization

Professional

Indentity from outside organization

Open vs. Closed System Open System Easy to join Quickly get up to speed Closed System Difficult to join Only certain kind of people fit in Malevich Russian Futurism Open Closed Magritte Surrealism

Open System

Easy to join

Quickly get up to speed

Closed System

Difficult to join

Only certain kind of people fit in

Loose vs. Tight Control Loose Control Casual Improvisation Tight Control Seriousness Punctuality Loose Tight Piet Mondrian De Stijl Wassily Kandinsky Expressionism

Loose Control

Casual

Improvisation

Tight Control

Seriousness

Punctuality

Normative vs. Pragmatic Normative Orientation Ideologically driven Pragmatic Orientation Market-driven Normative Pragmatic Andy Warhol Pop Art Mark Rothko Abstract Expressionism

Normative Orientation

Ideologically driven

Pragmatic Orientation

Market-driven

Organizational Culture (& Art) Six Dimensions of Organizational Culture Process vs. Results Employee vs. Job Parochial vs. Professional Open vs. Closed System Loose vs. Tight Control Normative vs. Pragmatic Practices of Groups Measured on Bimodal Scale Pieter Bruegel, The Elder (pre-Modern) http://tinyurl.com/4dqmz

Six Dimensions of Organizational Culture

Process vs. Results

Employee vs. Job

Parochial vs. Professional

Open vs. Closed System

Loose vs. Tight Control

Normative vs. Pragmatic

Practices of Groups

Measured on Bimodal Scale