You are excited to start your summer internship. A number of…

You are excited to start your summer internship. A number of company documents you were given emphasized how the company culture stresses openness to new ideas and team-based decision-making, so you are hoping to make a real difference.  But the reality doesn’t meet your expectations.  Managers pretend to be open to new ideas, but then they make the decisions themselves and tend to avoid anything new.  You ask a friend who has been with the company for some time, and she says, “yeah, that’s how things really work here.  Our managers don’t really pay attention to those documents – they’re just for show.”  What you have experienced is most likely a situation where the: