Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar H. Schein

Author:Edgar H. Schein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2016-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

Summary and Conclusions

In this chapter I have reviewed how cultural assumptions evolve around all the issues that founders face around external adaptation and internal integration as their organization grows and develops a culture. Ultimately all organizations are socio-technical systems in which the manner of external adaptation and the solution of internal integration problems are interdependent and intertwined and are occurring at the same time. The beliefs, values, and actions of the founder are the biggest determinants of how the culture will evolve, but the culture of the macro system in which the new organization evolves, the underlying technology, and the actual experiences of the organization are also important influences.

The most important conclusion to be derived from this analysis is that culture is a multidimensional, multifaceted phenomenon, not easily reduced to a few major dimensions. Culture fulfills the function of providing stability, meaning, and predictability in the present but is the result of functionally effective decisions in the group’s past. As organizations become internally more multicultural, the problems of finding common language and meaning will require special efforts that take place in temporary cultural islands.

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