Organizational Culture In Action

Author : Gerald W. Driskill,Angela Laird Brenton
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412905605

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Organizational Culture in Action by Gerald W. Driskill,Angela Laird Brenton Pdf

`In a cogent and easily accessible style, it provides superb guidelines for observing, interpreting, and understanding the subtle and complex nuances of an organization′s culture. The integration of qualitative research methods with cultural analyses makes this text distinctive and valuable addition to any organizational communication class′ - Linda Putnam, Texas A&M University `The authors skillfully weave together theory, application, and their professional experiences to create a wonderfully useful book that meets the needs of students and practitioners. Anyone who takes cultural analysis seriously should read this book′ - Phillip G Clampitt, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Metacomm `Organizational Culture in Action fills a real resource gap. It is a "workbook" in the most positive sense of the word. It offers enough step-by-step guidance to give students the confidence they need to move forward independently. At the same time, it does not sidestep the theoretical complexities, conflicts, and confusions surrounding the world of organizational culture and cultural analysis. The book is well conceived, usefully structured, and filled with application exercises that really make sense and are pedagogically justified. My students found it to be both accessible and stimulating′ - John Gribas, Idaho State University What is organizational culture? And how might knowledge of culture improve our organizational performances? This stimulating workbook guides students through data collection, analysis, interpretation, and application of organizational culture data using a practical five-step process. It begins by explaining theories on which organizational culture is based. It then provides guides for gathering information to help improve organizational performance. Based on more than 20 years of experience in using this approach with hundreds of students, the authors help students apply cultural insights to fostering diversity, supporting organizational change, making leadership more dynamic, exploring the link between ethics and culture, and making organizations more effective overall.

Author : Gerald W. Driskill,Angela Laird Brenton
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412981088

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Organizational Culture in Action by Gerald W. Driskill,Angela Laird Brenton Pdf

This book is a practical guide to eoereadinge the culture of organizations and to understanding the implications of culture for organizational effectiveness.Beginning with an explanation of the theories of organizational culture, the book provides guidance on collecting information, leading students through qualitative research methods of observation, interviewing, and analyzing written texts. Students come away equipped to apply cultural insights to fostering diversity, supporting organizational change, making leadership more dynamic, understanding the link between ethics and culture, and achieving personal growth.

Author : Süleyman Davut Göker
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839625787

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A Closer Look at Organizational Culture in Action by Süleyman Davut Göker Pdf

Values, attitudes, and behaviors constitute an organization’s culture and employees both share and use them on a daily basis in their work. This book aims to briefly portray a new interpretation of organizational culture varying from the profusion of literature in the following ways: it attempts to include how cultures are created organically or through consistent planning and action in different organizations such as education, business, and health; focusing more on change, innovation, and learning opportunities. It also aims to provide leaders with experiences and reflections on how to initiate an organizational culture change. Finally, this book is expected to extend new perspectives and practices for both potential and actual managers of organizations contributing to the current debate on how to transform organizations into innovative and learning cultures.

Author : Suleyman Davut Göker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1839625805

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A Closer Look at Organizational Culture in Action by Suleyman Davut Göker Pdf

Author : Gerald W. C. Driskill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429764080

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Organizational Culture in Action by Gerald W. C. Driskill Pdf

Offering students and practitioners an applied approach to the subject, Organizational Culture in Action (OCA) walks them through a six-step model for analyzing an organization’s culture to provide insight into positive communication practices to improve organizational ethics and effectiveness. The authors review relevant theory while integrating a constitutive approach to studying organizational culture and communication. Practical guides for multiple data collection methods are provided, and the workbook format is full of interactive tools that engage students and reinforce learning. The revised OCA cultural analysis model in this edition provides the below elements. • The revised first step in the model – "articulating the value of cultural analysis" includes connections to public relations and crisis management. • A definition of communication and the analysis process that foregrounds ethics throughout the book is included. • Recent research on organizational moral learning is integrated in the ethics chapter, and throughout the book. • The Communicative Constitutive of Organizations is now foregrounded throughout the book, and reflected in a table capturing variable and metaphor approaches to culture. • The latest applied research is integrated in units on diversity, change, leadership, and effectiveness in relation to positive organizational communication. • Enriched guides on multiple data collection methods now includes surveys. • Cases, examples, and applications relevant to crisis, employee engagement, virtual organizations, conflict management, and public relations are provided. Professionals come away equipped to apply cultural insights to fostering inclusiveness in relation to diversity, supporting organizational change, making leadership more dynamic, understanding the link between ethics and culture, and achieving personal and professional growth.

Author : Gerald W. Driskill,Angela Laird Brenton
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781452237930

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Organizational Culture in Action by Gerald W. Driskill,Angela Laird Brenton Pdf

This book is a practical guide to "reading" the culture of organizations and to understanding the implications of culture for organizational effectiveness. Beginning with an explanation of the theories of organizational culture, the book provides guidance on collecting information, leading students through qualitative research methods of observation, interviewing, and analyzing written texts. Students come away equipped to apply cultural insights to fostering diversity, supporting organizational change, making leadership more dynamic, understanding the link between ethics and culture, and achieving personal growth.

Author : Kevin Oakes
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781260464375

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Culture Renovation: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company by Kevin Oakes Pdf

Seize and expand the competitive edge with a smart, well-managed culture “renovation” Most business leaders understand the power of a dynamic, positive culture—but almost every effort to change culture fails. Why? The approach is often all wrong. Rather than attempt to “transform” a new culture from the ground up, leaders need to instead spearhead a culture renovation. It’s all about keeping what works, changing what needs to be changed, and ensuring proper care and maintenance—much like refurbishing and living in a beautiful historic home and improving its overall value. In Culture Renovation, the head of the world’s leading HR research firm—the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp)—Kevin Oakes provides tangible, tactical insights drawn from a robust data set and informed by CEOs and HR leaders at many of the world’s top companies. You’ll find everything you need to rebuild your corporate culture with care and expertise, including: Three phases and detailed action steps for architecting the change you want to see Practical insights and examples from T-Mobile, Microsoft, 3M, and other top companies The traits of a healthy corporate culture Proven talent practices to maintain your new culture for long-term success Oakes identifies 18 proven leadership actions for turning any culture into an agile, resilient, and innovative high-performance organization. You’ll learn how to best understand the culture in place today and set a new cultural path for decades to come; develop a co-creation mindset; identify influencers and blockers; ferret out skeptics and non-believers; measure, monitor, and report progress; and implement “next practices” in talent strategies to sustain the renovation. Culture Renovation delivers everything you need to plan, build, and maintain a corporate culture that drives profits, growth, and business sustainability now and well into the future.

Author : Gerald W. Driskill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Organizational behavior
ISBN : 1138384550

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Organizational Culture in Action by Gerald W. Driskill Pdf

Revised edition of the author's Organizational culture in action, c2011.

Author : Newton, Cameron,Knight, Ruth
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788976268

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Handbook of Research Methods for Organisational Culture by Newton, Cameron,Knight, Ruth Pdf

This innovative Handbook explores the complexity of cultural, conceptual and definitional issues surrounding research into organisational culture, outlining the varied frameworks and theories that underpin the field.

Author : Edgar H. Schein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470640579

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Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar H. Schein Pdf

Regarded as one of the most influential management books of all time, this fourth edition of Leadership and Organizational Culture transforms the abstract concept of culture into a tool that can be used to better shape the dynamics of organization and change. This updated edition focuses on today's business realities. Edgar Schein draws on a wide range of contemporary research to redefine culture and demonstrate the crucial role leaders play in successfully applying the principles of culture to achieve their organizational goals.

Author : David Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000397925

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Rethinking Organizational Culture by David Collins Pdf

What is organizational culture? Why does it matter? This book demonstrates that conventional wisdom on this fundamental business topic has surpassed its usefulness. The author wants neither to praise scholarship on culture nor to bury it – rather he wants to build something fit for purpose by reflecting on the power of stories and storytelling. Rethinking Organizational Culture argues that that the entrenched models of organizational culture wrench thinking, feeling, and action from a context that intuition warns us are complex and problematic. Arguing that novels and novelists offer an opportunity to redeem ‘organizational culture’, the text invites readers to recognise that stories of organization offer connections with organizational profanity, organized polyphony, and the organizationally prosaic. A stimulating and provocative read, this book will be welcomed by students, scholars, and reflective practitioners across the business field.

Author : Mats Alvesson,Stefan Sveningsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317421030

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Changing Organizational Culture by Mats Alvesson,Stefan Sveningsson Pdf

How is practical change work carried out in modern organizations? And what kind of challenges, tasks and other difficulties are normally encountered as a part of it? In a turbulent and changing world, organizational culture is often seen as central for sustained competitiveness. Organizations are faced with increased demands for change but these are often so challenging that they meet heavy resistance and fizzle out. Changing Organizational Culture encourages the development of a reflexive approach to organizational change, providing insights as to why it may be difficult to maintain momentum in change processes. Based around an illuminating case study of a cultural change programme, the book provides 15 lessons on the entire change journey; from analysis and design, to implementation and how organizational members should approach change projects. This enhanced edition considers the most recent studies on organizational change practice, with new examples from businesses and the public sector, and includes one empirical study which uses the authors’ own framework, enriching their practical recommendations. It also draws on the latest theoretical developments, including ideas of power and storytelling. Accompanying the text is an online pedagogic and research ideas guide available for course instructors and lecturers at Routledge.com. Changing Organizational Culture will be vital reading for students, researchers and practitioners working in organizational studies, change management and HRM.

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231559676

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Inside IBM by James W. Cortada Pdf

IBM was the world’s leading provider of information technologies for much of the twentieth century. What made it so successful for such a long time, and what lessons can this iconic corporation teach present-day enterprises? James W. Cortada—a business historian who worked at IBM for many years—pinpoints the crucial role of IBM’s corporate culture. He provides an inside look at how this culture emerged and evolved over the course of nearly a century, bringing together the perspectives of employees, executives, and customers around the world. Through a series of case studies, Inside IBM explores the practices that built and reinforced organizational culture, including training of managers, employee benefits, company rituals, and the role of humor. It also considers the importance of material culture, such as coffee mugs and lapel pins. Cortada argues that IBM’s corporate culture aligned with its business imperatives for most of its history, allowing it to operate with a variety of stakeholders in mind and not simply prioritize stockholders. He identifies key lessons that managers can learn from IBM’s experience and apply in their own organizations today. This engaging and deeply researched book holds many insights for business historians, executives and managers concerned with stakeholder relations, professionals interested in corporate culture, and IBMers.

Author : Joann Keyton
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412980227

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Communication and Organizational Culture by Joann Keyton Pdf

Rev. ed. of: Communication & organizational culture. c2005.

Author : Marcella Bremer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Corporate culture
ISBN : 9081982516

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Organizational Culture Change by Marcella Bremer Pdf

Culture, leadership and the ability to change determine organizational performance... But 75% of organizational change programs fail - being too conceptual, organization-wide and command-and-control like. That's why change consultant Marcella Bremer developed this pragmatic approach to organizational culture, change and leadership. The starting point is the validated Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument based on the Competing Values Framework by professors Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn. Next, Bremer shows how to engage people in OCAI-workshops or Change Circles. In peer groups of 10 coworkers they develop a change plan for their teams that is also personal and focused on specific behaviors. These Change Circles of 10 use the mechanism of "Copy, Coach and Correct" within groups to help organization members to implement the change and develop those behaviors that will make a difference. This book is a pragmatic user's guide to organizational culture change. Learn the best practices from a change consultant and unleash your organization, too!