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Article Reflection

In the article, Consulting Culture: Two Companies Uncovered, Edgar Schein's levels of organizational culture is clearly seen throughout the reading. Andersen Consulting emphasizes high standards, high profiles, high expectations, and tangible rewards. In the organizational culture this is the level of espoused values, which is based on strategies, goals and philosophies. On the other hand, Creative Good focuses action and risk taking, open communication, growth, and active listening. According to Edgar Schein, the espoused values consists of: all group learning reflects original values, social validation happens with shared learning, and first begins as shared value then becomes shared assumption. With that description of the espoused values, each company clearly has an understanding of what type of strategies, goals, and philosophies they'd like to focus on.
Another level that the Creative Good Company is very familiar with is that of artifacts. What I mean......

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