Organizational Culture (Intake 14 - 18)aditional organizational management consisted of a behavior list approach, focusing on employee rewards and punishments in order to develop motivation and to provide for employee satisfaction and organizational sustainability.In a 1998 study of 2,143 executives in 23 nations, organizational culture was cited most frequently as the primary barrier preventing corporations from achieving business goals. John Kotter and James Hesket, authors of Corporate Culture and Performance, stated that, “By our calculations, the vast majority of firms currently do not have cultures that are sufficiently adaptive to produce excellent long-term economic performance in an increasingly competitive and challenging business environment.” Suffice it to say that the evidence is clear and compelling: the culture of the business is a competitive advantage. Culture helps us to make sense of things and establishes an environment that produces patterns of human interaction. Those organizations with truly integrated people process cultural practices, tactics and strategies have a superior environment that supports superb patterns of human interaction.According to Jeffery Pfeffer of Stanford University, high performing people-centered organizations are outperforming their counterparts by 30-40%. However, less than 10% of today’s organizations have been able to create such cultures.“Culture” refers to the underlying values, beliefs, norms and codes of practice that make a community what it is. Social customs, the personality and self-image of its members, the underlying assumptions, and the channels of communication that create and disseminate these characteristics are things that constitute the society or organization's culture. Culture is powerfully subjective and reflects the meanings and understandings that we typically attribute to situations, and the solutions that we apply to common problems.ourse ObjectivesThe importance of an understanding and awareness of organizational culture is essential to effective management. Corporate culture isn't something one can easily define. It's intangible: a state of mind, a feeling, a collective consciousness that's infused in a business and its employees.Organizational culture provides the context for management and organizational success by embodying the values and beliefs of an organization. Often these values and beliefs are unstated and therefore not at the conscious level. Organizational culture has a profound effect on any organization, but it is often a somewhat elusive concept for use in management. This course seeks to identify what is meant by the term “organizational culture” and to provide strategies for management based on an awareness of a company's culture. We will also develop approaches for identifying the culture of an organization.Such subtopics as leadership, organizational change, organizational behavior, ethics, multiculturalism, corporate communication, success and innovation are all aspects of management that are dependent on an awareness of and ability to manage the culture of an organization.This course aims to introduce organizational culture concepts and gives you some first hand experience in understanding the cultural values of an organization. We will also examine tools and frameworks that can be used to identify and evaluate key cultural values of an organization, which will provide techniques about changing the corporate culture to increase satisfaction and performance.This course will take an innovative approach at studying theory while also taking a hands-on, real-life experience look at organizational culture. You will be provided with a variety of perspectives and experiences. At the same time, you will have a course project which will be the examination of an organization's explicit and implicit cultural values. You will also get a chance to compare the cultures of several organizations through your colleagues' projects and cases we will cover in class.
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