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    This document discusses culture and major religions in Asia. It defines culture as patterned behaviors learned in society that shape values, attitudes, and behaviors. Culture is shared and organized. The document then examines why cultures differ and persist over time. It provides overviews of the major religions in Asia, including Confucianism which focuses on virtues like loyalty and respect, and Buddhism which teaches the Noble Eightfold Path and non-violence. Shintoism is described as Japan's indigenous religion focusing on harmony with nature, while Buddhism blended with Shintoism and Confucianism in Japan. The document asks if organizational culture is still relevant today.

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    This document discusses culture and major religions in Asia. It defines culture as patterned behaviors learned in society that shape values, attitudes, and behaviors. Culture is shared and organized. The document then examines why cultures differ and persist over time. It provides overviews of the major religions in Asia, including Confucianism which focuses on virtues like loyalty and respect, and Buddhism which teaches the Noble Eightfold Path and non-violence. Shintoism is described as Japan's indigenous religion focusing on harmony with nature, while Buddhism blended with Shintoism and Confucianism in Japan. The document asks if organizational culture is still relevant today.

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    Cultural Analysis in Asia

    + Various def of culture.

    Evans (1999) – “Culture is the patterned


    behaviour learnt by human beings as members of
    their society

    Terpestra & David (1985) – culture also shapes


    people’s values, attitudes, beliefs and behavioural
    patterns.

    Warner & Joynt (2002) opine that culture is best


    defined along the line of ‘collective
    programming of the mind’, ‘collective soul’ and
    ‘social glue’ 2
    Features of Culture
    Culture is
    shared

    e is d Cu
    lt ur ic an l
    lea ture
    Cu mat zed. rn i s
    ste ni ed
    Sy rga
    O

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Bj8OCmxb4
    3
    Why do Cultures Differ &
    Persist?
    4
    Major Religions of Asia
    5
    + Confucianism

    More of a social code for behaviour

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFt_VGG0kJU

    6
    Virtues of Confucianism

    + Loyalty to the + Faith in friendship


    state/emperor
    + Reciprocity in human
    + Respect for elders relations

    + Filial piety + Education &


    cultivation

    7
    Buddhism
    + Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism who later became known
    as “the Buddha,” lived during the 5th century B.C.

     promoted the idea of the “Middle Way,” which means existing between
    two extremes.

     he sought a life without social indulgences but also without


    deprivation.

    https://www.history.com/topics/religion/buddhism#section_5
    The Noble Eightfold Path

    + Right Views + Right Livelihood

    + Right Motive + Right Effort

    + Right Mindfulness
    + Right Speech

    + Right Contemplation
    + Right Action

    9
    Dharma – 5 Not killing living things

    moral
    principles that Not taking what is not given

    a Buddhist live No sexual misconduct


    by
    No lying

    No using drugs or alcohol

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAYtZmDDxLc
    + Shintoism & Buddhism

    Most Japanese are a Buddhist-Shintoist-Confucian blend

    Japan’s only indigenous religion, known as ‘the way of the


    gods’.
    + Japanese are children of the gods, thus having a totally
    different and superior origin

    Stresses the harmony of earth and the spiritual powers –


    known as kami (Hinkelman, 1994)

    11
    Shintoism & Buddhism (c’td)

    Buddhism came from China to Japan more than a


    1000 years ago.

    + Japanese aristocracy embraced a mixture of two,


    which is known to the West as Zen Buddhism.

    + Zen reintroduces the Shinto belief in harmony


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK_4Z5DZcNM

    12
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjziCs-R2S4
    13
    A quick exercise
    + https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
    332569673_Organizational_Culture_man
    agement_Reality_or_Myth

    So is organizational culture relevant


    today?

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