Edgar Schein's Culture Model

Edgar Schein is a former professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Massachusetts, USA. Also, he has worked for many years as a consultant in organisational development and corporate culture.
Edgar Schein was one of the leading researchers in culture when cultural theory emerged in the early 1980s. According to this theory, culture is a metaphor for the organisation of the company.
Edgar Schein’s theory is in what we call the functional perspective, where culture serves as a particular function in the organisation.
Section
0:00 Introduction
1:05 Understanding of culture
1:26 Define the culture
2:26 Divides culture into three levels - called the iceberg
3:12 Artifacts - upper level
4:36 Espoused Values - middle level
5:41 Basis Assumptions - lowest level
6:20 Correlation between levels
7:06 Using the model as an analysis tool
10:30 Difficult to change strategy when it involves changing basic assumptions
11:32 An example - the danish company VOLA
13:42 A criticism of the model
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Thanks a ton for the explanation ? How effective is this model compared to Hofstede's as I wanted to use this model for LEGO as they made changes to their company culture from a traditional to a technical model without losing the core foundations on which LEGO stands for. Thanks

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The model can be used to explain an organization's cultural change. Hofstedets can do that too. I would probably do the analysis with both models and then highlight the aspects where they reach the same result. Then I would highlight the aspects where they do not achieve the same result, and here try to analyze why the results are different. Hope you can use the answer.

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Thanks a lot, question how does this impact managers?

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Good question. There are many approaches to that question. But let's start with a sentence - "Culture eats strategy for breakfast". Management must always remember to check whether the changes they want to make are in line with the organisation's basic assumptions. If they're going to make changes in that direction, it requires a considerable effort. Here you can see Kotter's 8 step model - kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4K6moChjd6HhpY I hope you can use this approach to your question.

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Which of Scheins book is this taken from?

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How does theory affect staff retention

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