Chapter 19-cultural Approach To Orginazations

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

Webs of significance; systems of shared meaning

Question 2

Cultural Performance

Answer 2

Actions by which members constitute or reveal their culture to themselves or others

Question 3

Ethnography

Answer 3

Mapping out social discourse (finding out who people are, think they are, doing, and to what end they think they think they are doing it within a culture)

Question 4

Thick description

Answer 4

Record of intertwined layers of common meaning that underlie what a specific people say and do

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

Clarifies something that’s unknown by using something familiar

Question 6

Corporate stories

Answer 6

Stories that show management ideology and exemplify company policy

Question 7

Personal stories

Answer 7

Tales told by employees to put in good light(good standing)-fit in

Question 8

Collegial stories

Answer 8

Positive or negative stories told by others in the organization; how things “really work”

Question 9

Ritual

Answer 9

Texts that articulate multiple aspects of cultural life, often make rites of passage or life transitions