Creating a Culture

Abstract

This research provides an examination of management and employee values as influential for organizational rule formation, that is, cultural theme formation. Specifically, the research demonstrates that management and employee values and management and employee perceptions oforganizational rules are related over time and that the direction of that relationship can be specified. %findings indicate that management values are directly related to employee values but indirectly influence the evolution of organizational rules. Additionally, thefindings support the interactional nature of managementlemployee relationships. Finally, this research provides evidence of rule emergence based on management and employee values and underscores the importance of communication-receiving activities for knowledge of rule emergence and a variety of organizational and work satisfactions.

Communication.

“…These beliefs are deeply buried, and most organizational members are not aware of them. Shockley-Zalabak and Morley (1994) conceptualized cognitive frames as composed of shared values and shared communication rules. Bormann (1983) traced the evolution of communities in organizations and in society at large to symbolic convergence among members around common narratives.…”