Classroom Activity: Clash, Cult, or Fun?
Clash, Cult, or Fun?
Learning Outcomes: The purpose of this video is for students to be able to identify and describe an organizational culture and to identify the ways in which it has utilized the Attraction-Selection-Attrition model.
Time frame: 20 minutes (10 minutes video, 10 minutes class discussion)
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Instructions:
- As a class watch the video, Zappos is a Weird Company-and It’s Happy That Way: https://youtu.be/5mknIg_Abfw
- Would you like to work at the organization based on what you saw in the video? Why or Why not? How do you know?
- Based on what you saw in the video, how would you describe the culture at the organization?
- Discuss the assumptions, values and artifacts evident in the video.
- How did the organization use the Attraction-Selection-Attrition model based on what was shown in the video?
- Do you believe that the organization has been successful in maintaining and sustaining its organizational culture with this approach?
