Chapter 8 Discussion

Cultural Control  Employees?  Management?  Forced?  Treated as commodity?  Impacted by economy, technology, social world  Culture  who does it benefit?  Ideologies and ideological control

Organizational Socialization and Assimilation  Anticipatory socialization (example from case study?)  What we see and hear  Organizational anticipatory socialization  e.g. recruitment, websites (employee page)  Organizational Entry and Assimilation  Training, mentoring, employees as active receivers of information, move from control to independence  Exit

Culture and Diversity within Organizations  Demographic characteristics  Modes of thinking, feeling, acting  Must value diversity  Remember case study on female doctor (“meeting quota”)

Roles and Challenges  Traditional  Management control diverse culture  promote efficiency and productivity  Impact of diversity on efficiency and productivity  Making Equal Employment Opportunity Commission happy  Interpretive  Impact of diversity on organization’s culture  More diversity = complex and diverse construction of reality (new ways of thinking; merging perspectives)  Possibility of conflict – impact on culture?  Critical  Sustainment of power regardless of diversity  Diversity creates conflict; who are the winners and losers  Benefits of diversity  Struggles associated with groups because of demo  Gender (e.g. sexual harassment; glass ceiling), race & ethnicity, class, physical abilities  Misconceptions? Challenges?  ACT #5