Modern Management: concepts and skills, 14/e

Types of Organization Culture

Based on the preceding discussion, we see that organization culture is made up of several different factors. Needless to say, putting all of these factors together into a meaningful rationale that describes a culture can be difficult and frustrating for managers.

Fortunately, a model developed by Cameron and Quinn called the Competing Values Framework presents a rationale that managers can use to categorize organization cultures.15 The Competing Values Framework appears in Figure 16.1. According to the model, cultures differ with respect to two sets of opposite values. The first set of opposite values is organizational flexibility and discretion versus organizational stability, order, and control. The second set ...