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1
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What are cultural models?

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The different ways organisational culture can be classified

2
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What did Handy identify?

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Four different types of organisational culture

3
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Each culture suggested by Handy is determined by different assumptions about what?

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  • The basis of power and influence in an organisation
  • What motivates people
  • How people think and learn
  • How changes should occur
4
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What are the four cultures identified by Handy?

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  • Power culture
  • Role culture
  • Task culture
  • Person culture
5
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Features of power culture:

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  • Control radiates from the centre
  • Concentrates power among a few
  • Few rules and little bureaucracy
  • Autocratic
  • May struggle if business grows and cannot be run from centre
  • Employees more resistant to change because they don’t have faith in managers
  • E.g. Apple, Virgin
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Features of role culture:

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  • Clearly delegated authorities
  • Hierarchical bureaucracy
  • Power derives from a person’s position
  • Autocratic/paternalistic
  • Poor communication between departments so respond slowly to change
  • Avoid risk
  • Resistance to change as employees are not used to doing things differently
  • E.g. banks, government departments
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Features of task culture:

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  • Teams are formed to solve particular problems
  • Power derives from expertise as long as a team requires expertise
  • No single power source
  • Matrix organisation
  • Paternalistic/democratic
  • Supports objectives based around products
  • Change is normal because they are used to changing teams
  • E.g. accounting
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Features of person culture:

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  • People believe themselves to be superior to the business
  • Full of people with similar training, background and expertise
  • Develop own careers
  • Democratic
  • E.g. Firms of professionals such as lawyers
9
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What happens in a strong culture?

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Staff understand and respond to culture

10
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What happens in a weak culture?

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There is little alignment with business values

11
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What is a clan culture?

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Organisation acts more like a family with managers as parent-figures

12
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What is a market culture?

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One in which the focus is on competition with other organisations and between employees

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