Similarly, some organizational cultures place a very high value on people taking a structured approach to work and on disciplined attention to detail. These cultures are marked by predictability in processes, systems and scheduling. They value the efforts of a perfectionist ~ not the "80-20" rule. These cultures can be found in many industries but good examples are often found in science and engineering work or in certain areas of operations management (e.g. "just in time" inventory management and the scheduling of freight deliveries and airline flight patterns).

Other work cultures are less focused on attention on detail and structure. They may value spontaneity and interpersonal persuasion above the drive for precision. A culture that requires immediate action to be taken on limited information (the trading floor of a commodities exchange, for example) would also be at this end of the continuum, (as would a culture that relies on people to create their own structure and discipline ~ such as external sales). Groups that do a lot of their work on deadline, without all the "i's" dotted and "t's" crossed will have strong elements of this culture. The "creative" area of an advertising firm would be likely to have this kind of culture.