Organizational Culture

Respond to the following questions in your own words. Your responses should include specific examples and should incorporate concepts and terms from Chapters 4-5 in your textbook.

To help understand organizational culture, think about some organizations to which you belong. Does your company or school or fraternity/sorority have its own culture? How would you describe it? How does it influence individual decision making and action? Would you be a different person who had you attended a different school or joined a different fraternity or sorority? How would you go about changing your organizations culture?

Consider how you evaluate whether a firm is one of the good guys or not.  What are some of the factors that you use to make this determination?  Do you actually know the facts behind each of those elements, or has your judgment been shaped by the firms reputation? Identify one firm that you believe to be decent or ethical and make a note of the bases for that conclusion. Next identify a second firm that you do not believe to be ethical or with questionable values and write down the bases for that conclusion. Now, using the Internet and other relevant sources, explore the firms cultures and decisions, checking the results of your research against your original impressions of the firms. Try to evaluate the cultures and decisions of each firm as if you had no idea whether they were ethical. Were you accurate in your impressions or do they need to be modified slightly?

Writing Requirements

APA format

34 pages in length (excluding cover page, abstract, and reference list)

Use the APA template located in the Course Information folder to complete the assignment.

Provide 3 references