Especially in younger peoples’ eyes, qualification rests on professional knowledge and does not have much to do with status and positions. However, such attitudes to hierarchy and rank could be an artifact of organizational culture: the US headquarters of Caterpillar is characterized by a rather flat, egalitarian, and open culture, and the overseas subsidiaries
seem to have significantly assimilated this cultural attribute. The study provided, however, some evidence that the situation must be very different in local organizations – partners of Caterpillar. Thus, comments related to organizational cultures of CATwdealerships in Russia and China hint at local managers’ attempts to control information flows, to channel all the outside communication through top management. As one Chinese dealership employee stated:
Especially in younger peoples’ eyes, qualification rests on professional knowledge and does not have much to do with status and positions. However, such attitudes to hierarchy and rank could be an artifact of organizational culture: the US headquarters of Caterpillar is characterized by a rather flat, egalitarian, and open culture, and the overseas subsidiariesseem to have significantly assimilated this cultural attribute. The study provided, however, some evidence that the situation must be very different in local organizations – partners of Caterpillar. Thus, comments related to organizational cultures of CATwdealerships in Russia and China hint at local managers’ attempts to control information flows, to channel all the outside communication through top management. As one Chinese dealership employee stated:
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