Cultures

Cultures

1. PLURALIST

   • made up of different groups of people with different goals which might/often conflict

2. UNITARIST

   • Organisations as single monolithic entities where everybody has the same goals, aims and purpose

3. Club - Zeus

   • Fast thinkers
   • Like results
   • Reward with responsibilty
   • Apprentices
   • Do not analyse

4. Role - Apollo

   • Analytical
   • Skills gather through training
   • Power through postions
   • Reward - nice job titles
   • Like stable environments

5. Task - Athena

   • Problem solvers
   • Like wisdom and experts
   • Self developement
   • Boxing the problem - like challenges

6. Person - Dionysus

   • Learn by experience
   • Work outside the organisational structure
   • Freedom of speech
   • Consultants - Not do-ers

7. Attitudes

   • Ethnocentrism
     • I'm better than you!
   • Monoculture
     • One way of doing things
   • Ethno relativism
     • We are all equal
   • Pluralism
     • Lots of subcultures