Edgar Schein's 3 Levels of Organizational Culture

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Edgar Schein, of the Sloan School of Management, was interested in understanding organizational culture. He analyzed organizations into three distinct levels of organizational culture: artifacts (the surface manifestations of culture), values, and assumptions.

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Edgar Schein analyzed organizational culture into three distinct levels: artifacts (the surface manifestations of culture), values, and assumptions.

They are kind of like an iceberg, with the most important elements most hidden from view

Artifacts

Visible, surface elements of an organization’s culture, that an outsider would notice. They’re typically the things even an outsider can see, such as furniture, decoration, dress codes, rituals, stories.

They can be easy to observe but sometimes difficult to understand, especially if your analysis of a culture never goes any deeper. Often they can have a deep and meaningful history.

Espoused values

The company’s declared set of values and norms. They set out ‘how things should be done’ and what choices we should make.

Values affect how members interact, behave, and represent the organization and are often reinforced by public values statements, such as branding straplines, or lists of core values.

Shared basic assumptions

These are the bedrock of organizational culture. They are beliefs that people take for granted, rarely question, and therefore tend to go unnoticed.

Understanding these shared assumptions will help explain seemingly confusing artifacts and values.

Schein (1985) described six types of assumptions that form what Johnson and Scholes would describe as the paradigm for an organization. These are assumptions about:
1. the ‘truth’ and how it is determined
2. the importance of time
3. how space is owned and allocated, and what it means to people.
4. human nature, whether it is fundamentally good or bad, and whether it can be perfected.
5. the organization’s relationship with its environment, and how the organization’s staff should relate to it.
6. Social power and how people should relate to one another. This dictates a lot of organizational behavior, like:
a. how power and responsibilities are allocated
b. the balance of cooperation vs. competition,
c. individualism or group collaboration
d. the styles of leadership
e. ways of resolving conflicts
f. approaches to decision-making

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For your current organization - or one you know very well - write a short description of each of its:
1. Artifacts (2 MC CPD Points)
2. Values (2 MC CPD Points)
3. Assumptions (2 MC CPD Points)

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Edgar Schein's 3 levels model is one of the simplest, yet most profound, models of how organizational culture works. So, it is definitely one to become familiar with!
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Viewer, @John Hamilton's Urban Legends and Trivia let me know that Edgar Schein passed away at the age of 94 on 1/26/2023. Rest in Peace.

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Pure gold!
Those organizational assumptions are so fundamental, and so hard to shift, or even fully capture. I can relate to Sisyphus sometimes!

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Via this lesson I have got widely experience at work.

taifamgala
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Thanks Mike you're a legend. As always awesome video!

ImogeneSpencer
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Loving your videos, they are so easy to understand and your voice dynamic is just so good, it helps me a lot in learning about these management theories! Thank you so much sir!

ppalicexs
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Thank you. Planning course content and you are so clear, so succinct. Will incorporate your videos!

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This is such good information and is presented so well and clear. Definitely helped me for my assignment. Thankyou !

sarafaleatua
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Nice video. I wanna get deeper into different Organizational cultures structures and find out how can i develop them while understanding its complexities.

olaboratorio
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Edgar Schein passed away at the age of 94 on 1/26/2023. Rest in Peace.

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Nice video. In your opinion, can AI change/impact the underlying assumptions of an organization?

luigifilippofassati
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What are some of the weaknesses of using this model? Presumably it's not a perfect model?

csc
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You had me worried at 00:00 that this video wasn't in English

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I still can't grasp the essence of assumption

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