ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a detailed description of the cultural aspects of interpersonal relationships as they are found in the career development process and the cooperative process. It aims to develop a theory of culture and apply it to these parts of a modem organization. In an unmachine-like way the management group is involved in a “cultural system”. The individual uses culture to make sense out of social phenomena by categorizing them. The system of guiding principles used by any group will be the main influence for choosing the mode of social organization and for the interpersonal dynamics within that organization. All types of social action must be understood by weaving together a picture of the multiple meanings of social reality. An accurate study of social action must do better than claim to have sketched out the common character traits of individuals involved in that action, it must describe the specific characters involved in that action.
