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Study On Taichi Organizational Culture

Posted on:2008-04-08Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:E Z BiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119360272993144Subject:Business management
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With systematically and completely studying on Chinese native organizational culture and using research of Western Organizational Culture theory for reference, this dissertation puts forward the concept of "Taichi Organizational Culture" and establish the "Model of Taichi Organization Culture" to explore a new way that would be suitable for establishing present Chinese enterprise culture.Along with Chinese Opening Policy, western modern management theories have wave to China since 1980s. Because of differences between China and Western countries in both culture and value, directly using western management theories could not suit the development of Chinese enterprises. Purely pursuing efficiency would not only cause organization internal conflict, but also would cause disagreement and confliction between organizations and environment. At the present time, many phenomena such as shortage of trust, moral bankruptcy, seriously environment pollutions are showing the necessity and anxiety of rebuilding Chinese organizational culture.Chinese traditional Taichi organizational culture has features of pursuing harmony, concerning group benefit, caring interpersonal relationship and emphasizing one another responsibilities. Starting from human-oriented, Taichi culture is good at using psychology factors and restricting mechanism to adjust the imbalance and disorder state, and illumining human' s moral consciousness to take responsibilities among all around relationships, then to reach relative harmony and stabilization.On bases of entirely reviewing the form and developing course of Taichi organizational culture and by consulting study and lately achievement of western organizational culture, this dissertation has induced and summarized the main content of Taichi organizational culture, and has analyzed composing of Taichi organizational culture in three layers, which are basic assumption, value and outside form. The basic assumption includes five aspects, which include world view of "respecting for mutual harmony existed between the Nature and human beings" , ethically epistemology, humanity view of "Men are naturally good" , view of life philosophy of "perfect himself and save the world" , and human relationship of "keep personal distance and sequence" . Moreover, the dissertation discusses on duality view of Taichi organizational culture from three aspects of "collective or private" , "justice or benefit" and "truth or desire" . Through aspects of amenity, face, human relationship, geomantic omen and etc, it dissertates outside form of Taichi organizational culture and forms a relatively complete system of Taichi organizational culture.This dissertation divides Taichi organizational culture into four types including tight, republic, autarchy and relax types by two dimensionalities of authority transferring and property distributing, and shows that on the one hand Taichi organizational culture emphasizes the importance of authority in maintaining unify of organization, on the other hand it protests properly meeting individual benefits of organization members, and then to help establishing and keep harmonious phases. The functions of Taichi organizational culture include three aspects, which are promoting unification of collective and private benefit, using moral criterion to restrict organization internal conflict, and improving cooperating capability between organization and outside environment.Re-explaining Chinese ancient culture notions of "Yinyang" , "Wuxing" , "eight-diagram" and learning from world popular culture evaluating tools, this dissertation advances Taichi organizational culture evaluating system with the core of "eight-diagram chart" , and concludes five approaches of Taichi organizational culture evaluation. It also puts forward feasible operation measures and procedures which mean using abstraction and spreading of core value to unify thoughts of whole organization members, then increase coherence and form shared value.Finally, this dissertation analyzes reform reasons of Taichi organizational culture, and brings forward culture reform and innovation ways and processes, in order to have some instruct significance in helping Chinese enterprises to build organizationalculture during the transition period.In this dissertation, the author uses many different research ways and methods, such as literature research, qualitative and quantitative analysis, cross research analysis and case analysis to analyze Taichi organizational culture in many points of views, such as Management, Economy, Culture, Sociology and Psychology, in order to search methods and approaches that Chinese traditional culture influencing member' s conscious and behavior, then look for rules of establishing organizational culture, trying to supply and perfect present Chinese organizational culture theory system. By using demonstration to analyze Taichi organizational culture, this dissertation establishes diagnosis and evaluating model. All these efforts are trying to have more time features and more maneuverability and have more realism meaning in improving quality and efficiency of enterprise culture establishment. This dissertation tries to help people exerting the advantages of Taichi organizational culture and then harmonizing enterprises and increasing coherence and ability to compete.
Keywords/Search Tags:organizational culture, Taichi organizational culture, organization harmony
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