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Fluke Pongsakorn 
Loved this Fluke !
How about a task culture in Pinterest, if they ever apply it, how will it affect the employees ?
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Thanks Christelle. The employees will be formed in to a team base on their task to achieve the targets or solve problems. It will be better for the company since they can achieve the goal faster.
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Really great blog! Learned a lot about culture!
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Thank you Peter.
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Hi Fluke,
That was a wonderful blog you have written.
You have put some strong points which is commendable.
I just have one question that is how should be an ideal workplace or ideal organisational culture should look like?
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That was a wonderful blog you have written.
You have put some strong points which is commendable.
I just have one question that is how should be an ideal workplace or ideal organisational culture should look like?
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Thanks Roohi. For my opinion, it would be like democratic. Everyone can share their opinion or their point of view. That way, the company will have many perspective before making a decition.
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Hi,fluke. the definition of culture was introduced in detail, and cases were given for analysis. In addition, various models were combined, The overall thinking was particularly clear, the language was fluent and easy to understand.
It is really a good articl.One question,what are your thoughts on the future of organizational culture?
Well done,learn from you.
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Thanks Emma. I think future of organisational culture is Democratic culture. Nowadays, people can access a lot of information via the internet. Everyone has their own thought. They can’t be forced to think in the same way or blindly follow their boss like in the Autocratic culture. I’m not saying that Autocratic is bad. It depends on their organisation.
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I like how you elaborate on this topic thoroughly by analysing it through a real company case! As we may know, some companies may have difficulties in implementing this ‘openness’ culture due to its employees’ privacy preference – some may view this transparency as a discouraging act that exposes too much of their private matters. What steps do you think the company should take in order to instill this openness culture to this type of employees?
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Thanks Amy. I think the first thing they need to do should be doing with the manager level. If they can show employees that open up is better for both the company and the employees themselves, I think employees will follow what their leader do.
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This is a good blog with a useful information. I can learn a lot from this. Please continue doing it. Can’t wait to see the next one.
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Thanks Krit. Stay tuned!!
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Interesting read. A lot of firms don’t realise the importance of a firm’s culture and its influence on how a firm is run. Some just blindly proceed to its objectives. The organisational iceberg really highlights the value of the behavioural aspects of the firm, well done Fluke!
Would you care to comment on the issues that could arise if a firm’s culture is instead too ‘open’?
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Thanks Ban. I think if they are too open, they might have many conflict and misunderstanding within the organisation. So the solution for this case is to open up just a bit more.
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A very interesting topic discussing on a rising creative-media business which I’m sure most are on the rise nowadays. If you would classify Pinterest’s culture using Handy’s model, which one do you think would prevail, and why?
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Thanks Wardah. I think it would be Task culture since everyone in the organisation are doing their task and be able to make a decision. But the problem is they can’t share their opinion freely.
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Good Job Fluke
One question, can you explain more about the consequences of being so nice ?
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Thanks Ammar. Because they were too nice to each other, they can’t make a decision fast enough since bad comment can’t be delivered directly. So, I think it would be better if they open up to each other more.
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This is very interesting case study about Pinterest. This blog has very useful informations to know about their organisation culture. To look at Handy’s Model of culture, which culture do you think it can be described for Pinterest’s culture now and which culture do you think it would be the best culture for Pinterest to improve their organisation culture?
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Thank you for reading. For Handy’s model, I think it would be task culture. Current culture seems fine but just open up a bit more.
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Hey, Amazingly written blog. Covering all the theories so well. Helped me in learning a lot about culture and how it can be managed.
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Thanks a lot Priyanshi. Glad you like it:)
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