2-4 Describe how organizational culture affects managers.

Ambrosia Humphrey, vice president of talent at Hootsuite, understands the power of organizational culture and how it affects her as a manager. Nurturing and nourishing the company's culture is one of her top priorities. And she does this by continually creating employee experiences that reflect an important company valuetransparency. For instance, she's organized all-staff "Ask Me Anything" discussions with the company's CEO. Another tactic she's used is employee "hackathons" in which staff members get together to tackle problems. And, of course, she embraces social media as part of her commitment to transparency to employees, customers, and the community. Employees are encouraged to tweet about their perspectives on what it's like to work at Hootsuite. Those postings have ranged from pictures taken at rooftop meetings to employees complimenting other employees for their hard work to links to media reports about the company as a great place to work.³⁵

The two main ways that an organization's culture affects managers are (1) its effect on what employees and how they behave and (2) its effect on what managers

The key component in internal environments is probably organizational culture, or the set of key values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by members of the organization. According to the course textbook, "culture is perceived, descriptive and shared" .

1. Pick an organization, corporation, business, etc. that you interact with or visit frequently (as an employee, customer, member, etc.). Use Exhibit 2-4 on page 50 of the course textbook to describe dimensionsof the culture. If you are unable to locate specific information regarding the organization's culture, share your opinions about what you thinkculture dimensions are like--and why you feel this way.
2. Consider using a real-world example to support your thoughts and opinions.