Principles of management/PMAN101/Culture and Ethics/Culture Backgrounder

Culture Backgrounder

For this exercise, read the article An overview of various company's corporate cultures (PDF) in

Principles of Management (2012), published by the Saylor Academy

Other resources are referred to directly in the course. and think about the Wilkinson company culture video you watched.

• Do the culture-shaping decisions that Jay Wilkinson describe mesh with the good decisions outlined in the reading on fostering a positive corporate culture?
• If not, does the reading raise any new questions?

In the WEnotes comment option below, reflect on what you noticed as common themes in the video and reading. If you have questions, provide some possible answers to at least one of them.

For example:

• I'd never thought of corporate culture as something that could be designed...
• The reading made me realise that companies make decisions about their culture...