ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

and
EMPLOYEE SOCIALIZATION

MYLENE D. ABEJERO
MPA
Definition of Organizational Culture

Schein’s Levels in an
Organization Culture
Dimensions of Culture

Employee
Socialization
3 Distinct Stages in the Employee
Socialization Process
 ORGANIZATIONAL
CULTURE by: Edgar Schein

A pattern of shared basic

assumptions that the group learned
as it solved its problems of external
adaptation and internal
integration, that has worked well
enough to be considered valid and,
therefore, to be taught to new
Schein’s Levels in an Organization Culture

Artifacts

Espoused Beliefs
and Values

Underlying Assumptions
Schein’s Levels in an
Organization Culture

Artifa
cts
Visible
organizational
structures and
processes (hard
to decipher)
Schein’s Levels in an
Organization Culture

Espoused Beliefs and

Values
Strategies, goals,
philosophies
(espoused
justifications)
Schein’s Levels in an
Organization Culture

Underlying
Assumptions
Unconscious, taken-
for-granted beliefs,
perceptions,
thoughts, and
feelings. . (ultimate
source of values
and action)
 Dimensions of Culture
External Environments
• Develop a model of how assumptions
arise and persist
• Identify issues groups faced from origin
of group, if possible.
The Steps of
• Group External Adaptation
growth and and Survival: formation
culture
 Mission and Strategy
are intertwined.
 Goals
 Means
 Measurement
 Correction
 Dimensions of Culture
Managing Internal Integration
Internal Integration Issues:
1. Creating a common language and
conceptual categories
2. Defining group boundaries and criteria
for inclusion and exclusion
3. Distributing power and status
4. Developing norms of intimacy, friendship,
and love
5. Defining and allocating rewards and
 EMPLOYEE
SOCIALIZATION
Socializati
onIs the process through which
individuals become social
beings.

Organizational
socialization
Is the process through which
employees learn about their
organization’s culture.
Employee
Socialization
Employees are socialized into
organizations, just as people
are socialized into society. They
come to know overtime what is
acceptable in the organization
and what is not, how to
communicate their feelings,
 3 Distinct Stages in the
Employee Socialization
Process by: Decenzo and Robbins (1999)

1. Pre-Arrival Stage:

At this stage, an individual employee

comes to an organization with
certain values, attitudes and
expectations. At the selection stage
only, a prospective employee needs to
be enabled to understand to what
extent his perceived mapping gets
Stages in the Employee Socialization Process Stages of Socialization
continuation…

2. Encounter Stage:

At this stage, perceptions earlier

generated by an individual, are
reaffirmed through a well-
planned induction programme.
Any dichotomy between the
employees’ perceptions and
organizational perceptions needs
to be properly identified and
Stages in the Employee Socialization Process Stages of Socialization
continuation…

3. Metamorphosis Stage:

At this final stage of

socialization, employees
understand the organization and
identify themselves with it.
Employees develop a sense of
belongingness and become
contributors to achieving
References:

http://www.untagsmd.ac.id/files/Perpustakaan_Digital_2/ORGANIZATIONAL%20CULTURE%20Organizational%
20Culture%20and%20Leadership,%203rd%20Edition.pdf

http://www.shareyouressays.com/knowledge/3-distinct-stages-in-the-employee-socialization-process/116997