In the Competing Values Framework, Adhocracy Culture combines an external focus with a flexibility orientation. It is dynamic and entrepreneurial and emphasizes creating, innovating, visioning the future, managing change, risk-taking, rule-breaking, experimentation, entrepreneurship, and uncertainty. This profile is often found in fast-paced industries such as filming, consulting, space flight, and software development.

Adhocracy Culture

Clan Culture focuses on relationships, team building, commitment, empowering human development, engagement, mentoring, and coaching. Organizations that emphasize human development, human resources, team building, and mentoring fit this culture profile.

Clan Culture

In the Competing Values Framework, Hierarchy Culture combines an internal focus with a stability and control orientation. It is process-oriented and structured, emphasizing efficiency, process and cost control, organizational improvement, technical expertise, precision, problem solving, elimination of errors, logical and cautious decision-making, management and operational analysis, and careful decision-making.

Hierarchy Culture

In the Competing Values Framework, Market Culture combines an external focus with a stability and control orientation. It is results-oriented and competitive, focusing on delivering value, competing, delivering shareholder value, goal achievement, driving and delivering results, speedy decisions, hard driving through barriers, directive and commanding behavior, and getting things done.

Market Culture

Combining the Competing Values Framework axes yields four cultural types: Adhocracy Culture, Clan Culture, Hierarchy Culture, and Market Culture. Each type pairs an external or internal focus with a flexibility or stability/control orientation.

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The Competing Values Framework is a widely cited and tested model for diagnosing an organization's cultural effectiveness and examining how an organization and its culture fit with the external environment. The framework's effectiveness criteria help identify organizational cultures that fit particular environmental characteristics.

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OpenStax Principles of Management. Source pages used for organizational culture, corporate culture, and management topics. https://openstax.org/books/principles-management

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Cultural Types in the Competing Values Framework

One axis in the Competing Values Framework, external focus versus internal focus, indicates whether an organization's culture is externally or internally oriented.

External versus Internal Focus Axis in the Competing Values Framework

Another axis in the Competing Values Framework, flexibility versus stability and control, determines whether a culture functions better in a stable, controlled environment or a flexible, fast-paced environment.

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