MANAGEMENT 2
Management
The Circle is a film that showcases the adverse effects of technology on our lives. The
movie, The Circle, is a fictitious tech corporate firm which looks like a combination of Google
and Facebook. It produces high-tech surveillance products which can livestream, and at the same
time provides a platform which hosts the social world created by the technology. The company
intends to remove privacy by encouraging people to share all their private lives. On its part,
Disneyland is a real firm specializing in offering clients fun experiences and entertainment
(Farfan, Barbara 2014). These two companies have different organizational and corporate
cultures, which make each successful in their field.
The concept culture denotes shared and common beliefs, traditions, and practices within a
group which develop over time. According to Schein & Schein (2017), an organization’s culture
can be analyzed at three levels: Artefacts and creations, Values and finally, basic assumptions.
Artifacts include the things that an outsider can see and forms the main distinguishing features of
the company, including uniforms and badges. On their part, Values speaks to the things the
organizations consider critical for their continued existence. Underlying assumptions form the
deepest level of organizational culture, and it deals with the beliefs, whether right or wrong about
how things work.
The artifacts at The Circle includes transparent buildings made of glass. Moreover, one of
the co-owners of the company keeps a translucent shark. These are distinct features that only The
Circle Company possesses. The values that the company holds dear is total transparency and the
production of innovative products. The employees need to know about each other’s every
breathing moment, and they are shocked when the new employee, Mae Holland, switches off her
social media account and goes kayaking without posting everything for everyone to see. The

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