MGT 302 SLP WK 5: Organizational culture

A good place to start are these interactive tutorials:

Organizational culture. Pearson Learning Solutions. New York, NY.

After reviewing the tutorial, dig deeper into this topic with the following readings:

Rao, P. (2010). Organisational culture and effectiveness. Organisational Behaviour. Global Media, Mumbai. [Ebrary]

Piccolo, R. & Bardes, M. (2011). Chapter 13: Cultural due diligence. In Baker, H. (Ed.) Art of Corporate Restructuring, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, N.J [Ebrary]

De Vries, M. (2011). Chapter 4: The question of organizational culture. Reflections on Organizations : On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries. Jossey-Bass, Hoboken, NJ [Ebrary]

Required Case Assignment Reading

Klein, D. (2011). Creating cultures that lead to success: Lincoln Electric, Southwest Airlines, and SAS Institute. Organizational Dynamics 41(1), 35-39 [Available in Science Direct. Note: you only have to read the middle portion of the article concerning Southwest Airlines and not the whole article]

Bird, A. (Mar. 13, 2011). Southwest: Corporate culture combines work, play. The Post and Courier.[ProQuest]

Whatley, H. (2013). Principles and dimensions of market-based management. Independent Journal of Management & Production, 4(1), 126-135. [ProQuest]

Dissecting the Kochtopus. (Jun. 7, 2014). The Economist, 411, 76. [ProQuest] 

Optional Material

Torrington, D. (2013). Chapter 5: Organization: The culture you work in. Managing to Manage : The Essential Guide to People Management. Kogan Page Ltd., London [Ebrary]

Kumar, V., & Gopinadhan, S. (2009). Organisational culture. Organisational Behaviour and Mass Media. Global Media, Mumbai [Ebrary]

Perkins, S., & Arvinen-Muondo, R. (2013). Chapter 8: Organizational culture. Organizational Behaviour : People, Process, Work and Human Resource Management. Kogan Page Ltd., London. [Available in Ebrary]​

Schein, E. (2010). Chapter 1: The concept of organizational culture: why bother? Organizational Culture and Leadership (Fourth Edition). Jossey Bass, Hoboken, NJ, USA [Ebrary]

Module 5 - SLP

For this final SLP, AT@T PHONE COMPANY that you currently work for or have worked for in the past. You will be applying the concepts of organizational culture that you read about in the background materials to this organization.

Write a 2- page paper addressing the following issues:

1. Describe how your organization rates on these cultural characteristics: detail-oriented, team-oriented, innovative, aggressive, outcome-oriented, and people-oriented.
2. Discuss how strong the organizational culture is at your organization. To what extent is the organization’s culture shared by employees and managers?
3. What aspects of your organization’s culture do you think should be changed, and what steps would you recommend to change the culture?

SLP Assignment Expectations

• Answer the assignment questions directly. Stay focused on the precise assignment questions; don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to general background materials.
• Make use of both the required Case Assignment articles as well as the required general background materials in your paper. Apply concepts that you learned in the background materials in your answers to the assignment questions.

Review our “Writing Style Guide” for more detail on referencing and writing expectations. This guide is found under “My Resources” in the TLC portal.