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This paper looks at organizational culture and two perspectives on culture--the functionalist and the interpretive. Then it applies the interpretive culture to the student's work at a university and explains why a balance is needed between the interpretive and the functionalist perspectives.

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"Organizational culture is the set of shared values, shared beliefs and customary ways of thinking and doing things which shape and guide the behavior of organizational members. (Awal, Klingler, Rongione, Stumpf) According to Edgar Schein; "Culture is the accumulated shared learning from shared history." Nellen Schein observed that organizational culture develops gradually as the organization's people successfully face internal adaptation problems and external integration problems and that; "It becomes the common language and the common background". (Aiman-Smith) Thus, culture arises out of what has..."

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