ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how IMCO’s schemas manifest as culture through shared cultural models. How IMCO executives use metaphor is also evidence of functional grounding. The chapter illustrates a few of the most noticeable affordance structures and adaptations at IMCO. The best depiction of IMCO’s planning and forecasting practices comes from the general manager of IMCO’s aerospace components business: How one do that is really profound forecasting and modeling, and being proactive. The consulting practice developed some of the standards, called ‘career frameworks’, through an emic methodology, and played a lead role in developing the integrated talent management strategy with IMCO Human Resources. Social acceptance practices consist of the multifold ways people in organizations manifest normative behavior. One manifestation at IMCO is loyalty, an affordance of success comes through personal relationships and personal experience solves complexity. An interesting normative affordance concerns the concept of results.
