Corporate cultural values

It’s early morning in San RafaelCalifornia and software executive Steve Wong is off for work So is his dog, GrmmyWhy does he do it?Wong says,”When it gets a little stressful, I can take her for a long walkand ifit gets really stressfiil I take her for a longer walk.
Welcome to Autodesk, a San Rafael software company where doggie treats are as common as CD ROM’s, and where its not unusual to see highly paid executives sharing halls with a dog on deadline. Roughly a hundred pets are here every day.For some ownerslike Steve Wong. it’s workplace therapy,for others a chance to work long hours guilt free.One employee said You probably don’t cut off as early because you want to run home and let the dog out, feed the dog. that kind ofthing.You don’t do that because you’ve got it here with you.”
It’s a perk that has attracted new emplovees and makes leaving a difficult decision. One employee remarked”What would it be like working somewhere where you do not have that? Another said”I would not like it.”
There are rules-no barking. no fleas, no meetings. And there’s the three strikes and youre out rule. If a dog is caught relieving itselfinside the building three times, then doggy has to stay home. But dogs usually behave gathering around the water cooler or visiting offices that are knoum for their freatsIf aso seems that nets are hringing neone coser fogether One woman emolovee noted probably wouldn’t have half of the visitors that I have if I didn’t
have the dog.”And while dogs seems to dominate this companys image even having conference rooms named after them. In the og eat dng world of computer software there is one place where not every bark has a bite.
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QUESTIONS:
1. What corporate cultural values are expressed at AutoDesk?
2.Define the term cultural artifacts and critically justify whether the dogs in the AutoDesk
workplace can be regarded as cultural artifacts.
3.What role does AutoDesk’s policy about allowing dogs in the workplace play in
maintaining a stable work force?