Course Overview-Syllabus
Syllabus
Course Overview-About Dr. Urban
Meet Dr. Greg Urban
Why Culture Matters in Organizations-Why Culture Matters in Organizations
1.1 Introduction
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1.2 What are Teams?
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1.3 A Closer Look at Culture
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1.4 Culture as Cultivation
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1.5 Being Unaware of Culture
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1.6 Expectations and Realities
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1.7 The Little Cultural Things that Matter
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1.8 Culture Shock
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1.9 Habitus
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1.10 Characteristic Ways of Speaking within the Team
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1.11 What We Say Versus What We Do
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1.12 Hiring and Cultural Fit
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1.13 High Culture
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Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan
Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms
Crossing Cultural Boundaries-Crossing Cultural Boundaries
2.1 Two Examples of Cultural Boundaries
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2.2 Why Police Boundaries
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2.3 Culture in Motion
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2.4 Golden Arches East
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2.5 The Art of Smiling
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2.6 The Right to Fire
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2.7 The Law of Jante
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2.8 Cultural Relativity and Ethnocentrism
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2.9 Avoid Stereotyping
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2.10 A Checklist of Little Differences for Business
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2.11 Gestures as Boundary Marker
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2.12 Corporate Personhood
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Crossing Cultural Boundaries
Cultural Relativity & Moral Judgments
Team Rituals and Symbols -Team Rituals and Symbols
3.1 Burning the American Flag
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3.2 Team Mascots
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3.3 The Concept of the Symbol
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3.4 Transference of Affective Quality
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3.5 The Motivational Video
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3.6 People as Symbols
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3.7 The Pragmatics of Motivational Speech
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3.8 Symbolic Meaning of Stories
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3.9 Instrumental Symbols: The Gavel
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3.10 Individual and Collective Rituals
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3.11 Types of Rituals in Business
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3.12 Initiation, Enhancement, and Group Worship
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Symbols
Rituals & Culture
Effecting Cultural Continuity and Change-Effecting Cultural Continuity and Change
4.1 Culture in Time
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4.2 The Inertial Forces
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4.3 Habit and Drift
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4.4 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 1
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4.5 More on Reflective Culture or Metaculture as a Force
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4.6 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 2
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4.7 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 3
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4.8 Secret to Successful Cultural Change
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4.9 Introducing the Force of Interest
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4.10 Interest at the Interface between Different Inertial Patterns
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4.11 The Conditional Motion of Culture
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4.12 Conclusion
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Rules, Ultimate Causes, and Cultural Motion by Greg Urban