ABSTRACT
At this juncture, we need to investigate communication difficulties arising from the interpenetration of contradicting structures. Thus, we now turn back to the baseline model (Fig. 1.1) in chapter 1 that depicts the interpenetration of organizational structure with ethnic/racial/societal cultural structure in a culturally monolithic organizational system. That baseline model of the simple compatible relationship between multiple structures shows a generally functional organizational system that reproduces the initiating structures. As described in chapter 1, the predominantly European American U.S. corporate organization functions from a smooth and natural blend of interpenetrating structures (organizational design/form and ethnic/racial cultural structures). We now turn to that baseline for comparison to a very different kind of organizational system—the organization with a European-based-cultural design/form peopled by an organizational membership whose ethnic/racial culture is not European-based.
