Question
Final Project Part 1: Culture Analysis Paper
You will be asked to analyze an organizational culture. This could be
the organization you work with, or it could be some other
organization to which you have access. Remember that clubs,
associations, and churches can be considered organizations.
Research (data gathering) should include (but does not need to be
limited to) mainly primary sources.
Primary data is the data collected by the researcher themselves, i.e.
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interview
observation
action research
case studies
life histories
questionnaires
ethnographic research
Secondary sources are data that already exists
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Previous research
Official statistics
Mass media products
Diaries
Letters
Government reports
Web information
Historical data and information
Collect your data and analyze it. Describe how you collected the
data (observation, interviews, surveys).
Then, analyze the organizational culture along three dimensions:
artifacts, values, and underlying assumptions. Give examples of
behavior, speech, or symbols that illustrate your findings. This paper
should be 5-8 pages in length. Any data used (interviews, surveys,
