ORGANIZATION CULTURE. EMPOWERING YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIFE 1.Knowing your org’s personality...

ORGANIZATION CULTURE

EMPOWERING YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIFE

1.Knowing your org’s personality

2.Blending your pro personality to fit org culture

3.Mastering living two lives at the same time & the 21st century “big squeeze”

PRO SUCCESS TOOLS1. PROee mindset2. Managing CIMFP

(Continuously Interrupted Multitasking Filtered Productivity)

OC = the complex mix of psycho-social-institutional factors that shape an organization’s “personality” (what it’s like to work there)

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Org cul = the key to your job satisfaction & the genesis of

most org dramas

8 ORG CULTURES

OC1 MATERIALISTIC: things > people blue collar; long work hours = manufacturing; agriculture; retailing; fashionOC2 BUREAUCRATIC: Boring, routine, repetitive work; 8-to-5 = govt. agencies; insurance; military; credit checks; clerks & secretaries

OC3 SOCIAL DARWINIST: hyper-competitive work environment; franchises; entertainment; sports; salesOC4 INNOVATIVE: creating, experimenting, searching, changing: high tech; digital entertainment; research science, medical, etc.

OC5. TECHNICAL: systematizing; tracking; recording; tabulating; verifying; checking = accounting; computers; transportation; work supervisors; universities OC6. HUMANISTIC: serving; helping; accommodating; healing = health care; public education; religious & social service

OC7 ALIEN (“blended”): An org built around the intermingling of employees (diverse WE pods) from other orgs due to outsourcing, temp workers, & trans-national illegal workers = construction firms; universities; government agencies; agriculture; hotels/motels & restaurants; day car centers

UNIVERSITIES AS ALIEN CULTURES• PH.Ds vs. non-doctorates• Tenured (permanent) & non-tenured

(possibly non-permanent) faculty• Maintenance & technical workers

outsourced from multiple orgs• Academics vs. sports• Numerous temp/fill-in workers• Separation of undergrad & grad

programs• Board of regents from outside the

university

READING ORG CULTURES1. Wide pay differentials =

Social Darwinism culture: employee competition

2. Workaholism = high org & employee ambitions

3. Bureaucracy = orgs run by impersonal rules & paperwork, not people

4. CONstituent-focus = personalized OC

OC8 AMORAL Corporations Governments Sports Media Consumers Marketing Stock marketsTech innovation

POKER GAME AMORAL CULTURE

• Taking risks with other people’s money• Hiding your cards (info non-

disclosure)• Bluffing (competitive manipulation)• Non-emotional poker face (non-authentic org false front)• Take bigger and bigger risks to win big (corp. scams)

• General Motors key ignition fatalities cover-up• British petroleum gulf coast deliberate offshore oil carelessness & Port Arthur refinery safety violation fatalities• Cheating by Volkswagen on auto emission control records; Univision on radio/television ratings; Atlanta public schools on student achievement test scores • NFL concussion 20-year cover-up

• West TX preventable fertilizer storage facility explosion (& the sinking of the Titanic): lax govt. regulations to accommodate corporations

• Deaths caused by Peanut Corp of America knowingly selling peanuts nationwide with salmonella

• Rupert Murdock’s (Fox News owner & media magnate) widespread global cell phone espionage

The amorality POISON cycle

X X

→

X

Public opinion changed its mind about your amoral self-agenda behaviors. Now you’re OUTSIDE the acceptable

box!

X

xx

21st CENTURY OC CHALLENGES &

STRUGGLES

LIVING TWO LIVES IN THE WORKPLACE

Your world inyour pocket

The 21st century lifestyle: You’re 2 people wherever

you go: personal + professional

21st century human evolution:

The 2-dimentional split-life, multi-

tasking, PROee

Working conditions in most 21st century orgs are continuously unstable due to pro-personal multitasking (split identity integration) → CIMFP

Continuously Interrupted

Multitasking Filtered

Productivity

• Frequent pro + personal digital interruptions of the work flow: emails, texts, surfing, IPODing, grapevine

• Juggling multiple pro + personal projects• High physical + virtual interdependencies• Continuous lifestyle time overload

Work in the 21st century is socially holistic (professional & personal at the same time), not

process holistic(doing

work efficiently).Orgs

must accommodate multi-tasking

21st centurysplit lifestyles.

DOUBLE LIVES BIG SQUEEZE

•Dual-career marriages & family•Dependence on impersonal institutions (not family) for personal responsibilities, especially child & parental care•Nervous system exhaustion due to non-stop multi-tasking

CULTURE OF “MAKING A LIVING” WORKERS

WORKING MAN’S JOB REALITIES• $30-40k income; hourly wage + taxing overtime work• Job loss to foreign competition & off-shoring• Subject to periodic lay-offs; no pay when absent• Repetitive duties with limited ProDev (narrow skills range)• Micromanagement & lack of job empowerment

THE BLUE-COLLAR MINDSET• Economically insecure & permanent debt• External locus of control (belief that life is shaped by factors you can’t control) • Authoritarian (those in charge must be obeyed) • Nationalistic, dogmatic, & easily brainwashed