The organizational culture and subcultures within a business determines, to a larger extent, how the business performs and the quality of people that comprises an organization. Such culture is often initially created on purpose, but takes on life and identity of its own, developing organically and eventually controls and cultivates people within the organization. The case of Lincoln Electric Company is an interesting one, starting from the very early beginnings when the company was run by the brothers…

Society is made up of countless different groups and cultures, each in which differs from one another. Every culture and group within society has a set of norms, or expected behaviors, that have been set in place and are to be followed. When determining the norms within other cultures, one must first examine the values of the culture. Values are “the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly” (Henslin, 2011, p. 49). Being able to understand…

To What extent are subcultures such as Goth, Dance or Hip Hop, types of consumption of media popular culture, rather than styles of resistance? One problem in analysing a type of youth culture is measuring the extent to witch it is a response to a culture deliberately manufactured for marketing and consumption of cultural products. I would say to some extent all subcultures consume part of popular culture, but it does vary from which culture a person is apart of, E.G you can look at the Goth type…

individual rights within cultural groups. Particularly, she hopes for an implementation of feminist values into all cultures, especially minority cultures living within a liberal majority. Many cultural minorities propose special group rights, which would allow them to continue their practices even if it goes against the cultural majority’s values and laws. These group rights would not apply to anyone outside the minority culture, though Okin would argue that for many cases, these group rights should…

Cultural Awareness and characteristics within the Afghanistan culture. There are five major characteristics that define a culture; they are learned, shared, symbols, integrated, and dynamic. Culture is learned. It is not biological; we do not inherit it. Much of learning culture is unconscious. We learn culture from families, peers, institutions, and media. The process of learning culture is known as enculturation. While all humans have basic biological needs such as food, sleep, and sex, the way…

melting pot of ethnicities and cultures. For many members of minority groups a certain hybridity is readily adopted, but for others, cultural assimilation can be quite difficult. Chicana author, Sandra Cisneros described this phenomenon as “always straddling two countries… but not belonging to either culture” (Doyle. 54). African American author, Alice Walker shared Cisneros’ sentiment, but focused her attention on the assimilation of black cultures and subcultures within the United States. Cisneros…

polite if you bow to each other when greeting. There are hundreds of different ethnic groups in the world and they all have their own customs and traditions that stemmed out from their underlying culture. Similar to these ethnic groups, each organization also have their own unique culture that guides how people behave and what people believe in within the organization. In formal terms, organizational culture is “the set of values, norms, guiding beliefs, and understandings that is shared by members…

Multiculturalism is the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation (Dictionary.com, 2013). Canada is a country full of many different ethnicities and cultures, but even though Canada is housing them, it’s just not working. Problems in multiculturalism are most prominent in three areas, the communities, the schools and the workforce. Multiculturalism in the communities are facing struggle because of the cities’ appeal to new immigrants…

Culture within an Organization Culture in an organization is very important. Some would say that the culture is the core of that organization. Each organization has reasons why a certain culture is developed. Every culture is different depending on the workplace. It is important that the organization has the right culture setting and maintain that culture throughout. Problems always occur in organizations and they need to be solved as soon as possible. Leadership is another key opponent to have…

McGinnis Bodybuilding Subculture 1. Which group did you choose? Why did you pick that group? The group I chose was the bodybuilding culture. I chose that group because some of my family were bodybuilders when they were young, and also because it is an interesting topic to me. As a member of the throws squad in the UC Irvine Track and Field program, we do a lot of lifting and we stay conscious of what we eat. From what I’ve seen in bodybuilding it take that to a larger scale. 2. What is the dominant…