Workplace Observation

The workplace has created an excellent environment for new ideas and thoughts to be created and developed. The observable aspects of an organization's culture can be understood through the following precepts: communication, diversity, dress and language, and artifacts. It has been stated that "if information is the lifeblood of any organization" then the communications systems in place could be classed as the arteries and veins of the organization. The author has been able to observe, …

…is through artifacts, dress code, diversity or the way it communicates, an organization's culture is dynamic because of the employees, bottom to top, and is by design, not by coincidence. Retrieved on May 24, 2004, from http://ie.fujitsu.com/news/newsarchive/2003/09/000001/ Hunt J. G., Osborn R. N., Schermerhon J. R (2003). Organizational Behavior (8 ed.). New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Retrieved on May 27, 2004, from http://www.louisville.bizjournals.com/Louisville/2001/11/05 /editorial2.html>. [Word Count: 743]