Dynamics of organizational culture: Individual beliefs vs. social conformity.
The complex nature of organizational culture challenges our ability to infer its underlying dynamics from observational studies. Recent computational studies have adopted a distinctly different view, where plausible mechanisms are proposed to describe a wide range of social phenomena, including the...
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| description | The complex nature of organizational culture challenges our ability to infer its underlying dynamics from observational studies. Recent computational studies have adopted a distinctly different view, where plausible mechanisms are proposed to describe a wide range of social phenomena, including the onset and evolution of organizational culture. In this spirit, this work introduces an empirically-grounded, agent-based model which relaxes a set of assumptions that describes past work-(a) omittance of an individual's strive for achieving cognitive coherence; (b) limited integration of important contextual factors-by utilizing networks of beliefs and incorporating social rank into the dynamics. As a result, we illustrate that: (i) an organization may appear to be increasingly coherent in terms of its organizational culture, yet be composed of individuals with reduced levels of coherence; (ii) the components of social conformity-peer-pressure and social rank-are influential at different aggregation levels. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c96a34a7f04a45ea9b3426096c8e3d6a2022-12-22T02:45:28ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032017-01-01126e018019310.1371/journal.pone.0180193Dynamics of organizational culture: Individual beliefs vs. social conformity.Christos EllinasNeil AllanAnders JohanssonThe complex nature of organizational culture challenges our ability to infer its underlying dynamics from observational studies. Recent computational studies have adopted a distinctly different view, where plausible mechanisms are proposed to describe a wide range of social phenomena, including the onset and evolution of organizational culture. In this spirit, this work introduces an empirically-grounded, agent-based model which relaxes a set of assumptions that describes past work-(a) omittance of an individual's strive for achieving cognitive coherence; (b) limited integration of important contextual factors-by utilizing networks of beliefs and incorporating social rank into the dynamics. As a result, we illustrate that: (i) an organization may appear to be increasingly coherent in terms of its organizational culture, yet be composed of individuals with reduced levels of coherence; (ii) the components of social conformity-peer-pressure and social rank-are influential at different aggregation levels.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5493361?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Christos Ellinas Neil Allan Anders Johansson Dynamics of organizational culture: Individual beliefs vs. social conformity. PLoS ONE |
| title | Dynamics of organizational culture: Individual beliefs vs. social conformity. |
| title_full | Dynamics of organizational culture: Individual beliefs vs. social conformity. |
| title_fullStr | Dynamics of organizational culture: Individual beliefs vs. social conformity. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dynamics of organizational culture: Individual beliefs vs. social conformity. |
| title_short | Dynamics of organizational culture: Individual beliefs vs. social conformity. |
| title_sort | dynamics of organizational culture individual beliefs vs social conformity |
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