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Process for Changing Organizational Culture |
With very few exceptions, virtually every leading firm has developed
a distinctive culture that is clearly identifiable by its key
stakeholders. Not all organizations automatically possess a strong
and highly effective culture, of course, so this article discusses a
methodology for how to lead a culture change effort in an
organization. |
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Behind Closed Doors: A Secretive Culture - Who's to Blame? |
How about if we told people what we know or at least what we think
we know? Scary thought isn't it? What about the alternative? You
see, communication will occur. The only question is, do you want to
participate in the communication or leave it to the rumor mill,
looking sneaky or worse in the process? |
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Can
Multinational Groups be Effective? |
The Influence of Leadership and Corporate Culture. In this paper a
model focussing on how to build an effective multinational group
(MNGs) is presented. |
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Competition, Cooperation, and Corporate Culture |
Teamwork and cooperation between workers can be of substantial value
to a firm, yet firms often difer in their level of worker
cooperation. |
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Cooperation, Corporate Culture and Incentive Intensity |
We develop a theory of the firm in which the willingness of workers
to cooperate with each other plays a central role. Pdf-file 1999 |
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Corporate Culture and Human Factor Problems |
Imagine what would happen if the top management in a company
overnight became ill and couldn’t work for, say, three months? Would
such a company be paralyzed? Would it cease operating? Probably not,
provided the company is basically healthy. |
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Corporate Culture and Managerial Delegation: |
A Comparative Study of Japanese and American Multinational
Enterprises. Pdf-file |
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Corporate Culture Assessment |
This paper which uses an university as an example includes an
explanation of the model used, key findings and a data report. The
Corporate Culture Assessment instrument is a simple but effective
means of measuring and mapping corporate cultures. The model of the
Seven Levels of Personal and Organizational Consciousness was
created by Richard Barrett and is described in his book “Liberating
the Corporate Soul: Building a Visionary Organization.” pdf |
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Corporate Culture in Global Interaction |
Global Business Culture – an International Workshop. A compilation
of articles from this workshop. |
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Corporate Culture: Asset or Liability? |
One culture can evolve, two, however, will not. Merging two cultures
well is supreme challenge that needs to be actively shaped and
carefully managed. 2,194 KB |
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Creating a High-involvement Culture Through a Value-driven Change
Process |
Organizations do not achieve a cultural change by accident. They
achieve it with a defined strategy for high involvement and a
measurable action plan. Many link their strategy for high
involvement to initiatives that already are taking place in the
organization such as Total Quality Management or Total Service
Quality. |
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Creating strong guardrails for governance and ERM |
Often, corporate culture is difficult to describe. What impact does
corporate culture have on organizational behavior and employee
activities? A direct link exists between a company’s culture and
employee behavior. |
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Cultural Differences |
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Cultural Values - Do You Walk the Talk? |
Leading companies are learning how to measure their intangible
assets — employees that truly "live" the company's cultural values.
Living these values benefits everyone, including suppliers and
customers. 2003 |
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Culture in Change: A Case Study of a Merger Using Cognitive Mapping |
This study reports research exploring the culture of the company
formed by the merger of two small training providers. 2005 |
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Culture, Culture, Everywhere |
The only way to change corporate culture is to alter the way we
treat employees, not to hire a culture consultant, says Herbert W.
Lovelace |
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Demystifying Corporate Culture |
While many try to create a high-performing culture, few succeed.
Why? Is it that difficult? Not really. The key to culture is
understanding that the perceptions of the workforce are as
significant in shaping behaviors as the formal mechanisms. |
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Developing characteristics of an intrapreneurship supportive culture |
This paper aims at developing characteristics of an
intrapreneurship-supportive culture in order to facilitate
intrapreneurship over time – that is, to make it happen again and
again. 2006 |
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Does Corporate Culture Matter for Firm Policies? |
Economic theories suggest that a firm’s corporate culture matters
for its policy choices. Consistent with that, we find that the
culture effects are long-term and stronger for internally grown
business units and older firms. |
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Does Corporate Culture Matter? An Empirical Study on Japanese Firms |
Using Japanese firms’ data from 1987-2000, the authors have shown
that the strength of corporate culture significantly affects
corporate policies such as employment policy, management structure,
and financial structure. |
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Downsizing And Organizational Culture |
In this article Hickok argues that, ultimately, the most prominent
effects of downsizing will be in relation to culture change, not in
relation to saved costs or short-term productivity gains. In
particular, the author notes three observations in relation to the
impact of downsizing on organizational culture. |
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Executives Beware - Your Culture May Be Deadly |
In this paper, we will examine seven cases from a variety of
companies and industries that highlight the critical role that
culture plays in the success of contemporary organizations. |
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Growth at Work: The Benefits of Building Entrepreneurial
Environments |
The benefits of having an entrepreneurial culture are clear. Even
large companies in existing business sectors can create an
entrepreneurial environment by employing five key enablers. |
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Handbooks that support culture |
If your employee handbook doesn't fit the bill, you're missing a
great opportunity! |
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Hearts & Minds |
For leadership guru John Kotter, changing cultures is rarely about
rational choice. Instead, it takes emotion and heart, and leadership
at every level of the company. 2004 |
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Impact of organizational culture on performance |
Developing surveys to measure the impact of corporate culture. |
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Individual Personality And Organizational Culture |
This Article explores the hypothesis that individuals (particularly
organizational leaders) attempt to change the culture of their
organizations to fit their own personality preferences. Contemporary
definitions of culture are presented, and five of the better known
mechanisms for categorizing individual personality types are briefly
described. |
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Information Technology Adoption |
A Model of the Impact of Corporate Culture on Information Technology
Adoption. Pdf-file December 2002 |
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Language, Culture and Global Business |
The interpreter as a tool for effective cross-border communication |
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License to Innovate or License to Kill? |
When responsibilities exceed rights, companies go nowhere. When
rights exceed responsibilities, companies go bust. |
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Making Cultural Change Happen: Putting Management Transformation
Theory to Use |
Operational definitions of management, management transformation,
culture, and cultural change are presented and then applied to the
development of a “mechanics” of cultural change. Overcoming
personal, addictive, habitual attitudes and behaviors is identified
as the cornerstone of cultural change. pdf-file |
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Managing corporate culture through reward systems |
While most managers are aware of their companies’ cultures, they are
unsure about how it is maintained, transmitted, or influenced. We
believe that the reward system represents a particularly powerful
means for influencing an organization’s culture. |
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Managing in an Era of Multiple Cultures |
In today's global economy, managers must be able to identify and
work with the many types of cultures that exist simultaneously
within an organization or a business network. |
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Managing the Multiple Identities of the Corporation |
This article provides a framework intended to assist firms in
understanding their corporation’s identities more clearly and
managing them more effectively. In the wake of corporate
acquisitions, mergers, and spin-offs, considerable senior management
attention has been devoted to corporate identity and its
communication to key stakeholder groups. pdf-file 168 KB. 2002 |
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On
the Origin and Evolution of Corporate Culture |
Where does corporate culture come from? In trying to answer that
question, this paper also suggests a new perspective on the
relationship between corporate culture and performance. |
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Organizational Culture and Cost-Containment in Corrections |
The economic and political realities of the 1990's are forcing
public administrators to implement operational changes to cut or
contain costs in their organizations. Often the changes necessary to
control costs directly confront long standing organizational
cultures. This article provides insight to the magnitude of the
problem by examining the efforts at one federal penitentiary to
control the single issue of overtime costs. |
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Organizational Culture and Fraudulent Financial Reporting |
Recent high-profile fraud cases increase the importance of
identifying companies that have the potential for fraud behavior.
Certain characteristics of a company's organizational culture can
signal the potential for fraud. 2003 |
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Organizational Culture and Knowledge Management Success: Assessing
The Behavior–Performance Continuum |
Traditionally, culture has been assessed by qualitative methods.
However, quantitative approaches such as culture surveys offer
important advantages for both cross-sectional organizational
research and knowledge-based cultural change initiatives. The
Organizational Culture Inventory© (OCI), an instrument designed for
such uses, profiles the culture of organizations and their sub-units
in terms of behavioral norms and expectations. pdf-file |
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Organizational Culture and Nonprofits |
Shared assumptions about values, meaning, language, symbols, and
group norms can create a framework from which the nonprofit can
implement its mission and programs |
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Organizational Culture Assessments – What Are They and Why Do One? |
pdf-file |
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Organizational Jazz - Understanding Organizational Culture Using the
Culture of Music |
Culture resides in the background under familiar conditions, but its
characteristics become more salient when threatened. Organizational
culture distinguishes firms from one another and it is a significant
determinant of firm innovation and survival. |
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Organizational Life Cycles & Corporate Culture |
PowerPoint presentation about the lifecycle concept in corporate
culture |
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Overview |
Good introduction into the topic with a definition and some
approaches |
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Personality Traits and Workplace Culture |
Online tests measure the fit between person and organization |
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Recognizing Organizational Culture in Managing Change |
Structural changes can serve as the initial intervention for
shifting culture. |
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Relationship among Org. Culture, Customer Satisfaction & Performance |
This study explores the moderating role of national culture and
industry characteristics on the relationship between organizational
cultural values and business outcomes |
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Shaping Corporate Culture |
Leaders need a sophisticated understanding of corporate culture, and
powerful tools for rallying executives and middle managers to work
effectively with cultural variables. Pdf-file |
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Stop Blaming Your Culture |
Start using it instead — to reinforce and build the new behaviors
that will give you the high-performance company you want. |
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The
Analysis of Organizational Culture and Structure as a Basis for the
Implementation of Knowledge Management |
In the commercial world of today Knowledge Management and
Organizational Learning are supposed to be indispensable
prerequisites for the competitive ability of companies. Managers, in
particular, have the potential to change an organization and
therefore they should act in an exemplary way. |
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The
Cult of Three Cultures |
The sum of operational, executive, and engineering cultures is
greater than the corporate whole. 2001 |
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The
Tyranny of "Community" |
By imposing togetherness and teamwork across divisional boundaries
companies risk losing the people whose tacit knowledge actually
drives growth. 2000 |
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The
Value of an Ethical Corporate Culture |
An independent U.S. research study shows additional evidence that a
company’s ability to maintain an ethical corporate culture is key to
the attraction, retention, and productivity of employees. |
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Toward a Theory of Corporate Culture |
An evolutionary approach to reciprocity in the employment
relationship. Pdf-file |
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Web-Walk on Organizational Culture |
Helps to think about your organizational culture |
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What is Organizational Culture Becoming? |
Seeing Organizational Culture in a Becoming Perspective. Pdf-file
2004 |
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