Business A-Level
founder values
What founder values means in Business A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of founder values
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Reference: AQA
The founder's own values and the stories still told about them, which help form a culture rather than the culture being chosen.
Topics that use founder values
- Managing organisational culture (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- labour turnover
- Lewin's three stages
- national culture
- ownership and time horizon
- resistance to change
- reward systems
- Handy's four cultures
- person culture
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