Explain/define Organizational Culture. How do subcultures that are described as enhancing, orthogonal, counterculture, and silos differ from Organizational Culture?

Explain/define Organizational Culture. How do subcultures that are described as enhancing, orthogonal, counterculture, and silos differ from Organizational Culture?



Organizational culture is shared knowledge of members meaning is should inform, embed, shape, and account through routine or non-routine activities of the members that express through words and actions of members. Enhancing (subculture supports the cultures values, beliefs, norms, and expectations), orthogonal (independant of dominant subculture but not conflicting), counterculture (subculture challenges values, beliefs, norms, and expectations of the dominant subculture, and silos (strong organizational subcultures whose self containment makes collaboration between them difficult/impossible and lead to unproductive conflict).


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