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Relationships are basically hierarchical (lineal), but work/task space is clearly compartmentalized and allocated to members as their own niche or turf to manage and own. 4. Members of the organization are a family who will take care of each other. Instead of trying to make his theoretical definitions of culture's basic assumptions more precise, Schein's results are 'imitated' in the subsequent analysis. Here we employ Schein's five basic assumptions as a guide. Yet we still need to formulate these basic assumptions in the individual culture's own words.
Signs orient the visitor to the section's location, the members go periodically from one office into another. However, in some cases, the offices are isolated in other buildings. Generally speaking, it is difficult to see which individual office belongs to which section, because they are all strongly resembling one another. All offices are equipped with a desk, telephone, typewriter and writing instruments as the dominant visible tools. In some offices, typically the larger ones, a dictaphone may be found, but no personal computers are to be seen.
Visible Traditions a) Social traditions b) Leadership traditions c) Work traditions Artifacts are characterized as 'visible but hard to decipher' (Schein, 1992:17). The organizational culture's artifacts create a multiple and confusing surface which leaves an immediate impression of the culture and typically appeals to prejudices and stereotypes. There is thus a considerable need to systematize the artifact level, both in order to avoid losing oneself in detail, and to avoid overgeneralized labelling of the cultural surface manifestations.