¶ … Schien (1999) the Corporate Culture Survival Guide Culture content and surviving in the external environment

Mission, Strategy and Goals

Development of assumptions

Sense of mission and identity

Cultural moral of story: Acquisition strategy has to fit existing culture

Over organizational history learning by organization of effective

Complexity of Cultural Analysis due to shared mission and strategic intent

F. Variations in unit organization to achieve mission and strategy

G. Error-detection systems in the organization

F. Actions when discovering important goals are not being met

G. Variation among organizational parts in measure and actions to take on results

New Leaders in the Organization

Organizational culture

Destroy existing culture by ridding organization of key culture carriers;

B. Fight existing culture by forcing their own beliefs, values and assumption on the members of the organization.

C. Cave in to the existing culture abandoning their own beliefs, values and assumptions.

D. Evoke the culture by...

Subcultures
A. Subculture issues highlighted at the time of accidents.

B. Subculture issues important in mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures.

C. Blending of various technologies and subcultures.

D. Culture issue in older company that is maladapted is how to engage in transformations that are massive under pressure and avoiding economic damage that is serious.

E. Process of transformation

F. Asking where culture resides

G. Common group experiences and cultural formation

H. Levels of culture in the organization

I. The individual is a multicultural entity able to display different cultural behaviors depending on the situation.

J. The unconscious quality of culture is what makes culture so powerful.

3. Culture matters: because it is "powerful, tacit and unconscious and determines both individual and collective behavior.

A. Values and thought patterns of leaders are…