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Lenses on culture

Culture models: Hofstede, Schein and Denison.

Level
Bitesize
Learning time
1 hour 30 minutes
Where
Culture in Organisations
Price
£39

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About this course

Overview and Outcomes.

Overview

Every model of culture is a lens that reveals some things and hides others. This module introduces Hofstede's dimensions, including Minkov's later additions, Handy's four culture types, and Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner's seven dilemmas. The Renault-Nissan alliance and Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's PC division show these models at work across borders, and the module closes with the pitfalls of careless or single-model use. This module moves from describing culture towards diagnosing and measuring it. It covers Schein's three levels of artefacts, espoused values and underlying assumptions, including founder imprinting; Deal and Kennedy's four types built on risk and feedback speed; Cameron and Quinn's Competing Values Framework; and Denison's four traits linked to performance. It closes with a timeline of seven models and a guide to choosing the right lens.

What you'll develop

In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:

  1. Describe Hofstede's dimensions, Handy's four culture types and Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner's seven dilemmas, and explain what each lens is built to show.
  2. Apply these dimensions to place your own organisation and to anticipate friction in a cross-border or cross-organisational partnership.
  3. Identify the ways culture models mislead when used carelessly, including national stereotyping and applying national scores to a single team.
  4. Explain Schein's three levels of culture and why underlying assumptions, rather than espoused values, predict what people actually do.
  5. Use Deal and Kennedy's types and the Competing Values Framework to place a team and identify a mismatch between its culture and its task.
What it covers

The Modules.

1 hour 30 minutes of learning.

  1. 03Models of Culture I: Hofstede, Handy and TrompenaarsEvery model of culture is a lens that reveals some things and hides others. This module introduces Hofstede's dimensions, including Minkov's later additions, Handy's four culture types, and Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner's seven dilemmas. The Renault-Nissan alliance and Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's PC division show these models at work across borders, and the module closes with the pitfalls of careless or single-model use.41 min
  2. 04Models of Culture II: Schein, Deal and Kennedy, the Competing Values Framework and DenisonThis module moves from describing culture towards diagnosing and measuring it. It covers Schein's three levels of artefacts, espoused values and underlying assumptions, including founder imprinting; Deal and Kennedy's four types built on risk and feedback speed; Cameron and Quinn's Competing Values Framework; and Denison's four traits linked to performance. It closes with a timeline of seven models and a guide to choosing the right lens.41 min
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Part of the Culture in Organisations topic, also sold whole as The way we do things here.

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When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms

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