Exploring Strategy

1. Strategic Capabilities
Strategic Management
Course Title: Strategic Management Course No.: 501
Program: MBA 2.5 Evening Session: 2018-21
Teacher: Liaqat Javed Semester: III, Fall 2019

2. Geert Hofstede

3. Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Theory

4. Books by Geert Hofstede

6. Position
• Environment ✔
• Capability ✔
• Purpose ✔
• Culture & History

7. Influence of History and Culture

8. Organizational Culture
• Values
• Formally stated, explicit, written
• Beliefs
• People’s feel about issues
• Behaviors
• Day – to – day ways
• Paradigm
• Taken for granted assumption

9. The Cultural Web
shows the behavioural, physical and
symbolic manifestations of a culture
Paradigm

10. The Cultural Web
Paradigm
Control
System
Structure
Power
SymbolsStories
Rituals
Routines

12. Undertaking Cultural Analysis