Practice question · True or false
Within a single company, the engineering and sales departments can hold genuinely different subcultures with conflicting norms.
Hints
- Distinct work, jargon and incentives generate distinct norms.
- Two departments can hold genuinely opposed priorities.
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True
Why
Subcultures form wherever groups share distinct work, jargon, and incentives. Engineering’s "never ship bugs" and sales’ "never miss the quarter" are both authentic norms, and their collision is a structural feature, not a personality clash.
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