The current study dwells upon Edgar Schein’s original framework for exploring organizational
culture by classifying its elements to three levels. Important directions of model’s elaboration
are identified and analyzed. The last have been undertaken by different researchers in the last
three decades, based on individual’s necessities, involvement and experience with the
application in practice of this model. Viewing Schein’s model as a hologram is recommended
as a way to dissolve subjectively identified by different authors issues or ambiguities in this
framework. Thus, a contemporary, useful and richer “snapshot” of this model is proposed for
use in the organizations during these turbulent times when cultural intelligence capabilities
come of greater importance for their successful market performance