Core Culture

Examples of Core Culture in the following topics:

• Core Culture

  • Core culture is the underlying value that defines organizational identity through observable culture.
  • Core and observable culture are two facets of the same organizational culture, with core culture being inward-facing and intrinsic and observable culture being more external and tangible (outward-facing).
  • Core culture, as the name denotes, is the root of what observable culture will communicate to stakeholders.
  • This is where observable culture begins to transform into core culture.
  • Core culture has the same relationship with observable culture: core culture is created first, and ultimately drives the visible cultural aspects of the organization.

• Communicating Organizational Culture

  • Management is tasked with both creating culture and accurately communicating it across the organization.
  • Corporate culture is used to control, coordinate, and integrate company subsidiaries.
  • Culture runs deeper than this definition, however, because culture also represents the embedded values, traditions, beliefs, and behaviors of a given group.
  • Leaders have a number of tools and strategies at their disposal to communicate culture.
  • Communication is the core tool for managing this cultural integration, enabling executives to remind employees what the organization stands for and why it's important.

• FK Grade 6 Reading Level

  • Vast areas to the east were exposed to Greek culture.
  • Greece in turn was influenced by the cultures encountered during his conquests.
  • The term Hellenization means the spread of Greek language, culture, and population.
  • Alexander sought to insert Greek elements into Persian culture.
  • The core of Hellenistic culture was Athenian.

• Cultural Values

  • Dominant cultural values are referred to as core values; they tend to affect and reflect the core character of a particular society.
  • Core values are slow and difficult to change.
  • Secondary values also exist in any culture.
  • In addition, core values are held by virtually an entire culture, whereas secondary values are not.
  • Material culture - People with similar income may create a subculture.

• World-Systems Theory

  • The United States is an example of a core country -- it has vast amounts of capital and labor is relatively well compensated.
  • They are the buffer between core and peripheral countries.
  • They are also the cultural centers which attract artists and intellectuals.
  • Peripheral countries generally provide labor and materials to core countries.
  • Core countries extract raw materials with little cost.

• Activities in the Human Resources Department

  • Human resource departments are responsible for a wide variety of activities across a number of core organizational functions
  • A brief review of the core functions of human resource departments will be useful in framing the more common activities a human resource professional will conduct.
  • The core functions can be summarized as:
  • Ensuring compliance with legal and cultural expectations when it comes to employee compensation
  • Defending employee rights, coordinating with unions, and mediating disagreements between the organization and its human resources is also a core HR function.

• Complications of Globalization

  • The increasing rate of global economic and cultural exchange has resulted in a variety of developmental challenges.
  • These can be best described as political, cultural, economic, and ethical in nature.
  • Cultural exchange is a wonderful thing in many ways, but doesn't come without its costs.
  • As we integrate cultures across the globe, many cultures feel that their own culture is being lost in what could be described as the growing 'world culture.'
  • The very real divide between developed and developing nations underscores a core weakness in globalization, as benefits are not shared equally and wages do not reflect norms across regions.

• Thinking Globally

  • In this example, China is the core country, which gathers resources from and sells goods back to Africa, the periphery.
  • But on close inspection, superficially similar global practices are inconsistent with local culture.
  • This constantly reinforces the dominance of the core countries.
  • Domination (not just economic, but also cultural and linguistic) still continues to occur even though poor countries are no longer colonies.
  • Core countries accumulate wealth by gathering resources from and selling goods back to the periphery and semi-periphery.

• Two-mode core-periphery analysis

  • The core-periphery model is indifferent to the density of ties in the off-diagonal blocks.
  • When we apply the core-periphery model to actor-by-actor data (see Network>Core/Periphery), the model seeks to identify a set of actors who have high density of ties among themselves (the core) by sharing many events in common, and another set of actors who have very low density of ties among themselves (the periphery) by having few events in common.
  • Actors in the core are able to coordinate their actions, those in the periphery are not.
  • When we apply the core-periphery model to actor-by-event data (Network>2-Mode>Categorical Core/Periphery) we are seeking the same idealized "image" of a high and a low density block along the main diagonal.
  • So, the "core" is a cluster of frequently co-occurring actors and events.

• The Mission Statement

  • The mission statement is generated to retain consistency in overall strategy and to communicate core organizational goals to all stakeholders.
  • To be truly effective, an organizational mission statement must be assimilated into the organization's culture (as the theory states).