4. Skill Builder Develop your ability to identify and communicate effectively within an organization’s culture. Choose an organization in a field that interests you, or focus on an organization to which you already belong.

By analyzing the organization’s physical setting and literature, interviewing others, and making your own observations, construct a description of the organizational culture that addresses the dimensions listed on pages 53–60. On the basis of your findings, describe an optimal way to communicate in the following areas:

a. Introducing new ideas.

b. Interacting with superiors.

c. Dealing with conflict.

d. Managing time.

e. Socializing with fellow workers.

f. Using preferred methods of exchanging information (e.g., telephone, e-mail, face-toface interaction).