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Article: Making sense of corporate culture
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Josef Eby Ruin
New Straits Times
06-30-2007
Making sense of corporate culture
Byline: Josef Eby Ruin
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: Main Section
CULTURE exists in social units of all sizes, from civilisations to countries to organisations (corporate culture) to workgroups. Simply put, you are your culture, and your culture is you.
Cultural lessons may be taught in schools, social and religious settings and on the job. But most cultural lessons are learnt by observing and imitating role models as they go about their daily affairs, or as they are portrayed in the media. Culture generally remains below the threshold of conscious awareness because it involves taken-for-granted assumptions about ...