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Organizational Culture Theory and Critical Theory: Move From Systemic and Structural Issues To - .
Organizational Culture Theory and Critical Theory: Move From Systemic and Structural Issues To - .
Critical Theory
Culture Theory
Understanding organizations through a cultural lens with a
focus on values, attitudes and beliefs of members
Critical Theory
Revealing how social and technological structures within
organizations serve to oppress workers.
Organizational Culture
FOCUS
Changes in Global Marketplace
Intense Competition
Reconsider Traditional Management Practices
Shift from traditional, highly rationale theories to
more fluid and irrational
Societal consciousness-raising regarding oppressive
atmosphere in organizations for workers, women,
and minorities
Inequities and Oppressive Circumstances
Organizational Culture Theory
State University vs. Southern University Case Study
Attempts to explain behavior within organizations
Attempts to account for differences among organizations
Description of how members of a group live and make sense
of their world together
Culture provides a lens through which its members interpret,
interact with, and make sense of reality
Culture helps to explain patterns of behavior and thought that
characterize individuals and the groups with which they are
associated
Focus on VALUES, ATTITUDES, and BELIEFS of members
Organizational Culture Theory
Rites and rituals - public performances that display and enact values
Critical Perspectives . . .
Reject the notion that organizations are value-free sites
Organizations are sites of struggle between management and workers resulting
in domination and oppression of the powerless by the powerful.
Critical Theory
Karl Marx
Roots in the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt (Frankfurt School)
Knowledge is not objective; tainted by personal interests and the power structure
Involvement in the inner workings of society to reveal contradictions associated
with the imbalance of power
Provide critique that allows for the reversal of oppressive conditions in the future
Research goal: reveal how social and technological structures within the
organization serve to oppress workers
Researchers must engage in consciousness-raising among organizational
members
Critical Theory