Jamie is about to go to work for Potpourri, a store that sells various bed and bath accessories. Though technically a chain, Potpourri currently has just three stores, all within an hour of each other in the Midwestern United States. The type of organizational culture Jamie is likely to encounter at Potpourri is one in which employees

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Potpourri is a small, new organization, and thus is not likely to be a fragmented (employees have very little connection to one another) or mercenary (employees tend to share a lot of opinions, including a dislike for each other) culture. Small organizations generally start out as communal cultures oriented around the owner and founder. As companies grow, they tend to move toward a networked culture (employees are free spirits, each of them his or her own little island; employees enjoy friendly relations, but differ on many things, including work-related matters), because solidarity is harder to foster when groups get really large.

Jamie Is About to Go to Work for Potpourri, a Store