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