Sammendrag:

• The purpose of this dissertation is to look at the creation of corporate culture
through the use of corporate trainee programs.
• Statoil is the company used as the example.
• The study was done through qualitative research by interviewing four
international trainees at two different times; first after they had been in Statoil
for 3 months, then after 9 months in their job.
• The theory on corporate culture used for this thesis is Organizational Culture
and Leadership, by Edgar H. Schein.
• The theory on national culture used is Hofstede’s 4 cultural dimensions
• The interviews are divided according to subjects and questions