S/M/187. People in organisations work culture to their own ends. Discuss the view that sub-cultures are endemic but irrelevant to the managing of large organisations.

The assumption given by the underlying question that people in large organisations manipulate culture to their own ends was amplified by several examples given by the works consulted. This essay has also shown that sub-cultures or counter-cultures do exist and that they are endemic and often able to be utilised to support cultural objectives of a company and that they are therefore not irrelevant for managing large organisations. This refers to the positive example of the “Design Department” in the “Olympic Committee”. The example based on Watson’s text shows in contrast that an engineered culture should carefully be implemented and that the importance of maintenance on inter-subjective coherence of several existing discourses in terms of their mutual influence, should always be taken into consideration.