McNeill (2007) Organizational Culture and Modern Art

Organizational Culture (& Modern Art)Jeff McNeill – 2007University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

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Organizational Culture – Agenda

Comes from Anthropology the Study of Culture

Different from National Culture Six Dimensions of Organizational Culture

Process vs. Results Employee vs. Job Parochial vs. Professional Open vs. Closed System Loose vs. Tight Control Normative vs. Pragmatic

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About Modern Art

Modern ArtToo many definitions!About people in groups

ArtistsSeen as individualsThe “romantic” notion of creative genius

MovementsArtists who work in similar styles at same timesShared themes, techniques, meanings

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Caspar David Friedrich

About Organizational Culture & National Culture

CultureToo many definitions!About people in groups

National culture = “values”They way things “should be”Normative

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Process vs. Results

Process Orientation How things are done The way we do things

Results Orientation What gets done Outcome Output

Process Results

Bridget Riley

Op Art

Joseph Beuys

Performance Art

Employee vs. Job

Concern for Employee Employee satisfaction

Concern for Job Job Completion

Employee Job

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Parochial vs. Professional

Parochial Indentity taken from

being in the organization

Professional Indentity from outside

organization

Parochial Professional

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (pre-Modern)

Gustave Courbet (first Modern)

Malevich

Russian Futurism

Open vs. Closed System

Open System Easy to join Quickly get up to speed

Closed System Difficult to join Only certain kind of

people fit in

Open Closed

Magritte

Surrealism

Loose vs. Tight Control

Loose Control Casual Improvisation

Tight Control Seriousness Punctuality

Loose Tight

Piet Mondrian

De Stijl

Wassily Kandinsky

Expressionism

Normative vs. Pragmatic

Normative Orientation Ideologically driven

Pragmatic Orientation Market-driven

Normative Pragmatic

Andy Warhol

Pop Art

Mark Rothko

Abstract Expressionism

Organizational Culture (& Art)

Six Dimensions of Organizational Culture Process vs. Results Employee vs. Job Parochial vs. Professional Open vs. Closed System Loose vs. Tight Control Normative vs. Pragmatic

Practices of Groups

Measured on Bimodal Scale

Pieter Bruegel, The Elder (pre-Modern)

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