Artifacts: The Case Of Chrysler

The two parties up for question in this case study are the Sanger and Fisker Automotive Companies. Sanger is a privately owned company that currently maintains eight highly reputable dealerships in the Florida and Georgia area, most of which fall into the luxury car category. The Sanger Automotive Company has been able to position themselves as a well-known and trusted car dealer in the area that began with its first Cadillac dealership in 1950. Currently the organizations President is Robert Sanger, son of the founder, whose main goal is to maintain his company’s reputation for delivering exceptional customer service when using any

1. The observable artifacts associated with the Chrysler culture was that the CEO was located in a penthouse office of the building which Mr. Marchionne moved to the middle of the engineering department; he streamlined senior leadership, and to the remaining 15 members he gave them added responsibility feeling that the more decisions they had to make the faster they would work to meet the deadlines; he also gave them the opportunity to take full authority to take risks without worrying about bureaucrats barriers and they were allowed to make smart decisions and to be held accountable for them (Lueneburger, 2014).

1. Describe the artifact and the course or context in which the artifact was developed.

For my artifact I constructed a document. Documents hold all sorts of information. In this case, these documents were from World War I. Knowing background information about the past is useful especially for World War 2. In this case for World War I, soldiers did not have any background information on wars for the reason that it was the first war to occur. Civilians during World War II, took inspiration and took the mistakes that soldiers messed up in WW1 as an opportunity to learn from their mistakes. In order to not repeat history again. Documents were used in order to keep track of special events that would occur during the time. In this case, this was something that the civilians based off of for World War 2, to know what types of battles

Artifacts explain a lot about a civilization. It gives information about when a civilization exist. The Lapita culture is seen to have developed in various islands as seen through the goods of pottery. Criticism of the Lapita culture is that their change in settlements throughout the time periods was not as striking as it appeared.

Artifacts can be identified in several ways throughout an organization. These artifacts are evidence of the history great leaders that can be seen around team settings, that are celebrated as a part of the organization telling a compelling story illuminating important and desirable values (Macintosh 6). The most easily identifiable aspects of organizational culture are the artifacts that are tangible and observable. For example, in regards to Cal Rugby, they have a rich tradition of winning. With winning come the accolades such as, plaques, trophies, etc. The history of Cal Rugby cannot be

What is my artifact and why it shows my understanding of or mastery of the outcome?

An observable artifact is defined as the physical manifestations of an organization. These artifacts can include a company’s dress code, stories about the company and rituals within the company. The main observable artifact that Chrysler had and the reason Mr. Marchionne was upset about was the way manager Fong doubled rebates in order to make sales. This tactic was part of the culture that led to the company not being profitable. Another observable artifact came with the changes Mr. Marchionne implemented such as his weekly meetings with his staff. Espoused values can defined as the normal standards

These issues with museums and other institutions has led many tribes to not only protest these collections and demand the most sacred items back, but to also develop their own institution that not only tell the real story of their people from a non scientific point of view, but also show the proper resect for the sacred and religious artifacts. Religious sights and objects are a piece of many different groups culture, many of which require a certain level of respect. Within the United States Native American groups are reclaiming these objects for their own

The next concept that will be applying to my observation is cultural objects. The term cultural object is an object or symbol that has multiple meanings; in society we negotiated around these objects for power purposes.

Today technology allows us to construct structures that we would never have been able to make in the past. Some of the creations are impressive based on what they accomplish but others are masterpieces in themselves. Man’s capability to build such tall buildings, as the skyscrapers we are familiar with covering our cities today, is a major expression of the advancements we have made as a culture. The power necessary to build such tall structures inspired competition between architects to see who could build the tallest one. One skyscraper that has inspired many and served as a model, for high rise buildings that were created after, is the Chrysler Building. The Chrysler Building serves as an identifying mark to anyone that

Documentary and artifactual data includes texts, photos, and other tangible items from the site that they are being collected from, analyzed and reviewed. By reviewing the documents artifacts and materials of a culture provides the researcher with an unobtrusive method of gaining information and may offer other forms of information that’s unavailable from any other data source. According to (Bamberger, et, al, 2006) journals, artifacts, photo’s and artwork may provide information of occurrences that have happened before the evaluators arrival.

The Hofstede Centre (n.d.) defines culture as the “collective mental programming of the human mind which distinguishes one group of people from another.” Chipulu, Ojiako, Gardiner, Williams, Mota, Maguire, Shou, Stamai, and Marshall (2014), note that “culture can be at once tangible and observable; latent and unobservable; or even an abstraction altogether” (p. 367). Culture therefore has many dimensions. Some aspects of culture can be observed by analyzing symbols, ceremonies, dress, and other aspects. On the other hand, some aspects are not observable from the outside, but have to be experienced. Looking only from the outside gives us only a glimpse into the culture values. A large part of culture is the unwritten rules of how things are done. This part of culture is not necessarily observable to an outsider. To fully understand the cultural values of an organization, you need to be inside the organization with access to those with years of work experiences.

In the examination of an artifact, many things can be deduced from the society that used this object. For example, take the existence of a shirt—which will be referred to as an artifact for the purposes of this analysis. This particular shirt has a collar, buttons, and patches on its chest and sleeves. It is grey in color with red stitching, black accents, and red lining. With further exploration, the shirt is found to contain writing on one of the interior portions underneath the back side of the collar. It reads: “Chiliwear-100% Polyester M Made in China.” This writing, while seemingly meaningless at first, is highly enlightening on the sophistication of the shirt’s creators. A second piece of the shirt near the opening at the bottom contains a tag that reads: “MACHINE WASH COLD LIKE COLORS. DO NOT USE [SOFTENERS]. TUMBLE DRY LOW. DO NOT IRON. DO NOT BLEACH.” All of these things are inherently revealing about the civilization that produced it, but let us focus on a few of these qualities in particular: the tag, the label, the material, and the implications created.

It is crazy to think the human body is more complex than we originally thought. A phenomenon that involved around interconnectedness between humnas is becoming a very big thing. Interconnectedness is a terminology which sees a oneness in all things. In a article titled "Interconnectedness: A Time Bomb Ready To Explode," written by Larry Dossey, states a personal story about a nurse who got a sudden and terrible headache in the back of head. She stated that she hardly ever gets headaches and the headache was severe (Dossey). She ends up going back home trying to relieve her headache when suddenly she gets a phone call telling her that her brother died(Dossey). She figured out that her brother was shot in the back of the head where the nurse headache came from (Dossey). This