The Power of Team Culture

1 Assignment

• Why Culture Matters in Organizations

2 Discussions

• What teams are you a part of?
• Have you ever experienced culture shock? Share your experience!

13 Videos

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 What are Teams?
• 1.3 A Closer Look at Culture
• 1.4 Culture as Cultivation
• 1.5 Being Unaware of Culture
• 1.6 Expectations and Realities
• 1.7 The Little Cultural Things that Matter
• 1.8 Culture Shock
• 1.9 Habitus
• 1.10 Characteristic Ways of Speaking within the Team
• 1.11 What We Say Versus What We Do
• 1.12 Hiring and Cultural Fit
• 1.13 High Culture

2 Readings

• Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan
• Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms

1 Assignment

• Corporations in Culture

1 Discussions

• Bryan Brothers Chest Bump, have you seen it?

12 Videos

• 2.1 Two Examples of Cultural Boundaries
• 2.2 Why Police Boundaries
• 2.3 Culture in Motion
• 2.4 Golden Arches East
• 2.5 The Art of Smiling
• 2.6 The Right to Fire
• 2.7 The Law of Jante
• 2.8 Cultural Relativity and Ethnocentrism
• 2.9 Avoid Stereotyping
• 2.10 A Checklist of Little Differences for Business
• 2.11 Gestures as Boundary Marker
• 2.12 Corporate Personhood

2 Readings

• Crossing Cultural Boundaries
• Cultural Relativity & Moral Judgments

1 Assignment

• Rituals & Symbols in Organizational Culture

1 Discussions

• Harley-Davidson York Transformation Video

12 Videos

• 3.1 Burning the American Flag
• 3.2 Team Mascots
• 3.3 The Concept of the Symbol
• 3.4 Transference of Affective Quality
• 3.5 The Motivational Video
• 3.6 People as Symbols
• 3.7 The Pragmatics of Motivational Speech
• 3.8 Symbolic Meaning of Stories
• 3.9 Instrumental Symbols: The Gavel
• 3.10 Individual and Collective Rituals
• 3.11 Types of Rituals in Business
• 3.12 Initiation, Enhancement, and Group Worship

2 Readings

• Symbols
• Rituals & Culture

1 Assignment

• Effecting Cultural Continuity & Change

12 Videos

• 4.1 Culture in Time
• 4.2 The Inertial Forces
• 4.3 Habit and Drift
• 4.4 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 1
• 4.5 More on Reflective Culture or Metaculture as a Force
• 4.6 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 2
• 4.7 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 3
• 4.8 Secret to Successful Cultural Change
• 4.9 Introducing the Force of Interest
• 4.10 Interest at the Interface between Different Inertial Patterns
• 4.11 The Conditional Motion of Culture
• 4.12 Conclusion

1 Readings

• Rules, Ultimate Causes, and Cultural Motion by Greg Urban