ABSTRACT
Over the last twenty years, organizational culture has become a topic of everyday conversation. To talk about the previous place where one worked as having a ‘different’ culture to the present establishment is unlikely to surprise anyone, so long as the respective organizational cultures are then distinguished through either general explanation or by giving examples. For instance, we might say that in organization A, the management–employee relationship is characterized by an ‘us and them’ culture, whereas by contrast in organization B culture is such that ‘your manager is your friend as well as the boss’.
