Read the Cultures At Work: The Case of Home Care Service on page 583 Answer the questions: 1. How many subcultures co-exist within Home Care Service, and how do they compare and contrast? 2. How...

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Ans1. The Home Care Service was founded in the year 1970s because of the societal attention toward the hospital staff to care for elderly. A thorough evaluation of the values which are practised by HCS employees brings out the existence of various subcultures. The prominent subcultural value system is of medical and healthcare employees. This is because they have the position that can easily influence others within the organisation. For instance, the allied professionals of healthcare are largely case managers and geriatricians who perhaps work part-time at HCS (Ashkanasy, N., Wilderom, C., & Peterson, M., 2000).
Ans2. Well, Boglarsky and Kwantes in 2004 had suggested that the formation of subcultures in the organisation is primarily based on the difference of functions as well as departments, occupation, gender and various hierarchical differences (Bradley, L., & Parker, R., 2000). With reference to HCS, there are different subcultures which recommends natural formation of group based on different occupations like therapists, geriatricians and social workers as well as paramedical assignment. Although all of them are working in healthcare domain but speciality of each role is different that develops a formation of sub-culture.
Ans3 Yes, indeed there is an organisational culture which overall express the mission of HCS and what are essential values the members of its organisation should inculcate to reflect as one part of system. Organisation was established by Medical Director who were driven to spread healthcare for elder population and offer high quality in whatever activities they performed. This case is classic example of how values of leaders and vision of founders translated into the practices for organizational members who might not have had the same value (Schein, E., 1985).
Ans4 Changing the culture of an organisation is a daunting task! That is on the grounds that an...