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How I Define Culture In An Organisation

Name: How I Define Culture In An Organisation
Uploaded: 2025-11-29T18:16:00+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this monologue, the speaker defines organizational culture as the spoken and unspoken rules that dictate reinforcement—reward, neutral outcome, or…

29 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker defines organizational culture as the spoken and unspoken rules that dictate reinforcement—reward, neutral outcome, or punishment—for employee actions. Culture is presented as a system of cause‑and‑effect rules governing behavior. The speaker outlines two methods for articulating culture: (1) a comprehensive codification that enumerates all rules and values, treating values as grouped rule‑sets; and (2) a rapid “three‑value” approach that distills the culture into three concise statements or bullet points, each unpacking into specific expected behaviors. The talk emphasizes that values are essentially chunked rules and that the chosen method should align with the organization’s need for depth versus speed.

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I define culture as the rules, spoken and unspoken, that govern reinforcement in an organization. So if you do this, then you will get rewarded. If you do this, then nothing will happen. If you do this, then you'll get punished. So culture is a series of rules that govern what happens, good stuff, bad stuff, when you do things. And so there's kind of like, I would say, two paths that you can do. My preference is actually codify it all and say like, what are all the things that make us us? And of course you're going to have your values and whatnot, but I see values as chunked up rules. If you want to do the fast and dirty way, you have the 3 values and then you just try to describe them the best way you can. And how can I chunk these into 3 statements or 3 bulleted words that when unpacked would mean that if I believe this to be true, this is the set of behaviors that will go along with it.