Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Dealing with Culture(s)
As we start to mix with each other again and even (gasp!) to travel to meet, we’re reminded that cultures are different from group to group, from organization to organization, and from country to country. For groups, organizations, and nations, cultures are, to be succinct, “how things get done around here.” Our cultural differences spur us to respond to the physical workplaces in which we find ourselves in different ways, we have varying expectations and experiences based on our cultures. Within a single organization, there can be multiple cultures, but to avoid having to say “the organizational culture found among a set of space users” over and over again in the paragraphs that follow, we’ll just refer to “organizational culture.” Also, any person is a member of multiple groups and each of those groups has a culture; below we’ll focus on the culture present as a person works and not …
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