Major Insights for the day 11/04

Corporate and organization Culture

Todays session revolved around Organization and Corporate Culture. The differences and similarities between the two. I understand that Corporate Culture is what is defined. The culture that is to be. Whereas, an organizatoin culture is what evolves as a result of beliefs, thoughts, etc. Of course these two are related.

Organization culture is evolved by the behaviour of the people in the organization. It is informally what people have started to believe is working mutually. A set of beliefs that people subconciously recognize as true and effective in their working with peers, customers, etc. Basically, the charecterstics of behaviour that they adopt in dealing with people both in the organization and people from outside. An organization culture is one that is passed on from one group of people to another that is newer in the organization.

From the vedio I saw for IDEO, i relaize that the organization culture, however intangible, can be very visible in the form of people's behaviour, general atmosphere and how they work with each other. During the class today there was a discussion on the Chris Argyris' "Theory of Action". Why do organizations and people in organization do not learn. Why don't they change their behaviours? People / Organizations; all have an innate recognition of their expected actions / behaviours to be reciprocated in particular situations which is usually different than how they "actually" react in such situations. The problem is that most people / organizations are not usually aware of this inequality of behaviour. This is the reason that prevents them from changing their behaviour. it goes on to say that people say something and not really mean the very same thing. They contradict themselves. People do not often walk their talks. if they knew about this disparity, they would probably be more prone to change.

During the class we also talked very briefly about some intresting reads on War for talent at Enron and Islamic banking. I am yet to read more about these on the internet.

Today i could not participate in the class discussion. This was really because my ideas were alrady brought up by other folks in the class and a little lack of opportunity.