Democratic Congressman Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) from East Texas lives a reckless life that includes heavy drinking and chasing attractive women. The film focuses on the Afghanistan rebellion against the Soviet troop invasion in the 1980s. Wilson becomes the unlikely champion of the Afghan cause through his role in two major congressional committees that deal with foreign policy and covert operations. Houston socialite Joanne Herring (Julia Roberts) strongly urges the intervention. CIA agent Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) helps with some details.

Organizational Culture: Some Observations

This sequence appears early in the film after the scene showing Charlie Wilson, Paul Brown (Brian Markinson), Crystal Lee (Jud Tyler), and two strippers drinking and partying in a hot tub. It opens with a shot of the Capitol building. Congressman Charlie Wilson talks to his assistant Bonnie Bach (Amy Adams) while walking to chambers for a vote. The sequence ends after Wilson enters the chambers.

1.    This chapter described organizational culture as having three levels of visibility. Artifacts are at the first level and are the easiest to see. Which artifacts did you observe in this sequence?
2.    Values appear at the next level of organizational culture. You can infer a culture’s values from the behavior of organizational members. Which values appear in this sequence?
3.    Organizational members will unconsciously behave according to an organization culture’s assumptions. You also can infer these from observed behavior. Which assumptions appear in this sequence?