Focusing on the deeper, 'less visible' level, Schein (1984; 3) views culture as something an organization 'is' and defines culture as 'the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented, discovered or developed in learning to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration and that have worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems'.