ABSTRACT
This module presents an exercise to help students develop an intuitive understanding of culture as a social construct. Though a critical concept for business students to understand, culture is an elusive concept, difficult for most students to grasp. For this reason, when I began teaching about the implications of culture in business and organizational contexts, I developed this experiential exercise in which the student is asked to surface and describe the culture of a particular organizational setting. It has remained a key tool in several courses I teach at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels. These courses include Organizational Behavior, Comparative and Cross-cultural Management, Cross-cultural Negotiation, and a seminar on Organizational Ethnography.
