Describe how organizations produce and reproduce themselves over time through conversations between the individuals within the organization.

What will be an ideal response?


In an organization, people refer to previous experiences or decisions that have
been made and remember the way things used to be done. As new people enter the
organization, those experiences and decisions are passed down from one workplace
generation to another as a system of beliefs and practices about how the organization
works.

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