Team+TEAM

**Team TEAM**
Haley Proulx William Chen-Tran Sylvia Ng Marcus Pabrazinsky Samantha McCleerey

**Meetings**

 * May 18th, 2011
 * Content & Information

**1. What is your topic? (per chapter title)** Organizational Culture **2. What company are you assessing as consultants?** Disney **3. Provide some background information about the business (just start on it but not due until final project is due, as is the case with numbers 6 and 7)** Disney was founded in 1923 by Walt Disney and is based in Burbank California. Disney operates as an entertainment company worldwide. Also, Disney owns several parks and resorts including hotels, restaurants, golf courses, conference centers, camp grounds, cruises, sports centers, and water parks. The current stock price is 41.52 with an average trade volume of 9,427,160 (3month). Current stock trend of Disney is that of a bull market. **4. What topics/theories will you cover to explain the interesting/challenging/****successful phenomenon going on in the company?** Subculture National culture Cultural Analysis Stories, Rites, Rituals, Symbols Cultural Rules and Roles Shared values, meanings and organizational myths Management Philosophy and Strategy Building, Reinforcing, and Changing culture Organizational Development <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**5. Who will be responsible for discussing what theories?** Subculture/National Culture- William Cultural Analysis/Stories, Rites, Rituals, Symbols- Sylvia Cultural Rules and Roles/ Shared Values, Meanings and Organization Myths- Haley Management Philosophy and Strategy/ Building, Reinforcing, and Changing Culture- Samantha Organizational Development- Marcus <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**(Number 6 and 7 below are not yet due but just noted here for record.)** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**6. Discuss in what ways some of the theories relate to the company, and in what ways some of the theories DO NOT relate to the company (there needs to be both as not every theory you choose will be exactly fitting to the company.)**

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**7. For those theories not utilized by the company, do you think they should? does it fit the organization? how so? why or why not?**

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Meeting Details:**

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**a) How often will you meet as previously decided?** <span style="color: #0457c0; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fridays during the usual class time. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**b) Who will take on what roll or do what tasks for the group?** <span style="color: #0457c0; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyone will do research and we'll decide as a group on what information to put on the powerpoints <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**c) What things are left to do as a group? list them...** <span style="color: #0457c0; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Research, powerpoint, video