What are some of the organization’s dominant values, norms, rituals, beliefs, language and ideology?
How do these cultural elements listed in the previous question reveal the shared meanings and understandings that contextualize organizational life?
Where do these shared meanings come from? Charismatic founder? The organization’s origin or early history?
Are their competing subcultures within the organization?
Does the dominant culture impede or facilitate organizational change?
To what extent have recent or current leaders shaped the organization’s culture?
Why would a new employee in this organization fail if he or she did not understand the organization’s culture?