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The Impact of Change on The Dynamics of Organizational Culture

The environment changes quickly in these years. No matter the changes of the outside environment or of the business, it will impact the businesses, and the organizational culture will have some dynamic phenomenon. In this thesis, four companies, which were impacted by some important events, are my study samples. In order to understand the cultures of the companies, the forming processes and the dynamic relations during each culture levels. I use Schein¡¦s model of organizational culture to interpret the four cases, and use Hatch¡¦s culture dynamics model to analyze.
The results conclude six reasons that cause the change of organizational cultures: a weak culture, small size, serious threatens, the transfer of leaders, the transitions, and in order to consolidate original culture. Besides, there are some relations between the Schein¡¦s model of organizational culture and Hatch¡¦s culture dynamics model.
The thesis bring out four propositions:
1. When the company was merged, its culture will be impacted by the strong culture of the merger. The merger will make use of the changes of artifact level as its tool to build or change the values and the assumptions of the company be merged.
2. After the equal merge of two companies, it will be in motion with the assumptions, and values of strong culture. At the same time, the strong culture will develop new artifacts to help weak culture to recognize the strong side.
3. To confront the new law opposite to original culture, if every member of the organization recognize and assist the culture, and through consolidating by the effectual members, the company still has the opportunity to resist the change.
4. When the organizational culture was impacted, some transitional artifacts will appear in initial stage, but they can¡¦t affect the values and assumptions. They will disappear after the transitions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0617100-180258
Date17 June 2000
CreatorsCheng, Yu-Lun
ContributorsFeng-Yang Kuo, G. Gary Hu
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0617100-180258
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