Organizational BehaviorChapter 14Organizational cultureOrganizational culture: the values and assumptions shared within an organization. Shared values and assumptions relate to each other and are associated with artifacts.Values: stable, evaluative beliefs that guide our preferences for outcomes or courses of action in a variety of situations. Conscious perceptions about what is good or bad, right or wrong.Shared values: values that people within the organization or wok unit have in common and place neat the top of their hierarchy of values.Shared assumptions: nonconscious, taken-for-granted perceptions or ideal prototypes of behavior that are considered the correct way to think and act toward problems and opportunities.Espoused versus enacted values Espoused values: the values that corporate leaders hope will eventually become the organization’s culture, or at least the values they want others to believe guide the organization’s decisions and actions.Usually socially desirable.Enacted values: when they actually guide and influence decisions and behavior. Values put into practice.Content of organizational culture Organizations differ in the relative ordering of shared values. (cultural content).ProblemsPeople oversimplify the diversity of cultural values in organizationsMost measures ignore the shared assumptions aspect of an organizational cultureMany measures of organizational culture incorrectly assume that organizations have a fairly...