ORGANIZATION CULTURE

EMPOWERING YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIFE

1.Knowing your org’s personality

2.Blending your pro personality to fit org culture

3.Mastering living two lives at the same time & the 21st century “big squeeze”

PRO SUCCESS TOOLS1. PROee mindset2. Managing CIMFP

(Continuously Interrupted Multitasking Filtered Productivity)

OC = the complex mix of psycho-social-institutional factors that shape an organization’s “personality” (what it’s like to work there)

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Org cul = the key to your job satisfaction & the genesis of

most org dramas

8 ORG CULTURES

OC1 MATERIALISTIC: things > people blue collar; long work hours = manufacturing; agriculture; retailing; fashionOC2 BUREAUCRATIC: Boring, routine, repetitive work; 8-to-5 = govt. agencies; insurance; military; credit checks; clerks & secretaries

OC3 SOCIAL DARWINIST: hyper-competitive work environment; franchises; entertainment; sports; salesOC4 INNOVATIVE: creating, experimenting, searching, changing: high tech; digital entertainment; research science, medical, etc.

OC5. TECHNICAL: systematizing; tracking; recording; tabulating; verifying; checking = accounting; computers; transportation; work supervisors; universities OC6. HUMANISTIC: serving; helping; accommodating; healing = health care; public education; religious & social service

OC7 ALIEN (“blended”): An org built around the intermingling of employees (diverse WE pods) from other orgs due to outsourcing, temp workers, & trans-national illegal workers = construction firms; universities; government agencies; agriculture; hotels/motels & restaurants; day car centers

UNIVERSITIES AS ALIEN CULTURES• PH.Ds vs. non-doctorates• Tenured (permanent) & non-tenured

(possibly non-permanent) faculty• Maintenance & technical workers

outsourced from multiple orgs• Academics vs. sports• Numerous temp/fill-in workers• Separation of undergrad & grad

programs• Board of regents from outside the

university

READING ORG CULTURES1. Wide pay differentials =

Social Darwinism culture: employee competition

2. Workaholism = high org & employee ambitions

3. Bureaucracy = orgs run by impersonal rules & paperwork, not people

4. CONstituent-focus = personalized OC

OC8 AMORAL Corporations Governments Sports Media Consumers Marketing Stock marketsTech innovation

POKER GAME AMORAL CULTURE

• Taking risks with other people’s money• Hiding your cards (info non-

disclosure)• Bluffing (competitive manipulation)• Non-emotional poker face (non-authentic org false front)• Take bigger and bigger risks to win big (corp. scams)

• General Motors key ignition fatalities cover-up• British petroleum gulf coast deliberate offshore oil carelessness & Port Arthur refinery safety violation fatalities• Cheating by Volkswagen on auto emission control records; Univision on radio/television ratings; Atlanta public schools on student achievement test scores • NFL concussion 20-year cover-up

• West TX preventable fertilizer storage facility explosion (& the sinking of the Titanic): lax govt. regulations to accommodate corporations

• Deaths caused by Peanut Corp of America knowingly selling peanuts nationwide with salmonella

• Rupert Murdock’s (Fox News owner & media magnate) widespread global cell phone espionage

The amorality POISON cycle

X X

→

X

Public opinion changed its mind about your amoral self-agenda behaviors. Now you’re OUTSIDE the acceptable

box!

X

xx

21st CENTURY OC CHALLENGES &

STRUGGLES

LIVING TWO LIVES IN THE WORKPLACE

Your world inyour pocket

The 21st century lifestyle: You’re 2 people wherever

you go: personal + professional

21st century human evolution:

The 2-dimentional split-life, multi-

tasking, PROee

Working conditions in most 21st century orgs are continuously unstable due to pro-personal multitasking (split identity integration) → CIMFP

Continuously Interrupted

Multitasking Filtered

Productivity

• Frequent pro + personal digital interruptions of the work flow: emails, texts, surfing, IPODing, grapevine

• Juggling multiple pro + personal projects• High physical + virtual interdependencies• Continuous lifestyle time overload

Work in the 21st century is socially holistic (professional & personal at the same time), not

process holistic(doing

work efficiently).Orgs

must accommodate multi-tasking

21st centurysplit lifestyles.

DOUBLE LIVES BIG SQUEEZE

•Dual-career marriages & family•Dependence on impersonal institutions (not family) for personal responsibilities, especially child & parental care•Nervous system exhaustion due to non-stop multi-tasking

CULTURE OF “MAKING A LIVING” WORKERS

WORKING MAN’S JOB REALITIES• $30-40k income; hourly wage + taxing overtime work• Job loss to foreign competition & off-shoring• Subject to periodic lay-offs; no pay when absent• Repetitive duties with limited ProDev (narrow skills range)• Micromanagement & lack of job empowerment

THE BLUE-COLLAR MINDSET• Economically insecure & permanent debt• External locus of control (belief that life is shaped by factors you can’t control) • Authoritarian (those in charge must be obeyed) • Nationalistic, dogmatic, & easily brainwashed