an online book by David Gurteen
Organizational culture refers to culture related to organizations including schools, universities, not-for-profit groups, government agencies, and business entities. Alternative terms include corporate culture and company culture. The term corporate culture emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was used by managers, sociologists, and organizational theorists in the 1980s.
Organizational culture influences the ways in which people interact, the context within which knowledge is created, the resistance they will have towards certain changes, and ultimately the way they share (or the way they do not share) knowledge.
Credit: Wikipedia - organizational_cultureOrganizational culture is the attitudes, customs, rituals, values and beliefs shared by the members of an organization that govern their behavior. Organizational culture is emergent. It is the result of the everyday interactions, behaviors, and conversations by the members of an organization. Culture is the way that we do things around here that we all … Continue reading What Is Organizational Culture? Dave Snowden
Organizational culture is the basic tacit assumptions about how the world is and ought to be that a group of people share and that determines their perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and, their overt behavior. Credit: Edgar Schein Posts where this quotation is embedded Culture Basic tacit assumptions about how the world worksPeople: Edgar ScheinEdgar Schein Professor Emeritus of … Continue reading Organizational Culture Is the Basic Tacit Assumptions About the World Edgar Schein
Introduction The objective is simple: “Better decision-making.” The only issue is that there are so many different views over what we mean by “better.” At the core of all decision-making is the need to balance Power with Responsibility, as the vehicle for resolving the “better” question. This article explores why that is so difficult? It … Continue reading The Issues at the Core of Ethical Decision-making and Leadership Bruce Lloyd (2009)
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the “magic” — the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement—that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more executives have discovered in recent years, the answer to this conundrum lies … Continue reading Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations by Boris Groysberg, Michael Slind (2012)
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture? Credit: David Bohm Comment: What a wonderful thought. One of my favorite quotations.Source: Changing ConsciousnessPosts where this quotation is … Continue reading A Real Revolution in Culture David Bohm
Colonialism has historically referred to the domination and control of one group or nation over another. However, the language of colonialism has recently been used to describe other forms of control and dominance. Introduction The term “colonialism” and related words, such as “colonize,” “colonized,” and “colonialist,” have historically referred to the domination and control of … Continue reading Avoiding Modern-day Colonialism Colonialism: the dominance, control, and exploitation by one group over another
Community is one of those soft, fuzzy words that many people do not fully understand and even find alienating. It is a word that gets used loosely, its meaning confused and distorted. So, what is meant by community? In business, we talk about communities of practice and communities of interest – self-organized networks of people with … Continue reading What Makes a Real Community? Members of a community care about each other
Speak up: Many of us are afraid to speak up, especially to speak truth to power, and there are many barriers to being open and frank. In organizations, this results in bad decisions and, at a societal level, many wrongdoings that are not brought to justice. We need to get better at not just speaking up … Continue reading Speak Up Express our opinions frankly and openly
Culture plays an essential role in our societal and organizational lives. It shapes us in a variety of ways. Culture and Conversation We can view a society or an organization as a network of people engaged in a continuous, dynamic flow of conversations. In this setting, we can unveil the culture by watching how people … Continue reading Culture Basic tacit assumptions about how the world works
