Schein's three levels of organizational culture

(Symbolic framework) Schein defines organizational culture as a pattern of shared basic assumption within the organization, and divides culture into three levels: 1. Artifacts: Physical objects, logos, managers flying business class etc. Easily observable things, but which are meaningless in themselves. 2. Espoused values: All manner of explicit value statements such as a company's mission statement or their core values. These points have to be interpreted, not only observed. 3. Basic assumptions: Make up the essence of the organizational culture and invisible and subconscious, for example human nature, us and them etc. Thus more difficult to analyze