Organizational culture is central to the performance of any organization. It reflects how employees act and interact, how they rise to challenges and respond to change, and how the organization as a ...

A positive, aligned organizational culture is easy to recognize: Productivity soars, employees are satisfied and empowered, processes are clear and effective — in short, everything seems just to hum ...

When different organizational cultures—the proverbial “how we do things”—come together, tensions frequently arise. Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when ...

Every organization, no matter its size, has an abundance of moving pieces. Ensuring that all those pieces move in perfect synchrony starts by devising an organizational structure that represents the ...

Organizational culture is like the personality of an organization. It's about how everyone, from leaders to the newest hires, thinks and acts. It shapes how work gets done and how people treat each ...

Theory on organizational culture posits that there are three layers of culture, each with their own distinctive definitions and meanings. Starting from the outside and moving inward, we first have the ...

Some time before Jamie Dimon’s Bank One acquired JP Morgan, then Morgan CEO Bill Harrison described himself as the firm’s chief culture officer. But culture didn’t protect Morgan despite its 200 year ...

This cookie exercise, first shown to me by leadership consultant Margaret Wheatley at a workshop, is an excellent (and delectable) demonstration of the emergent properties of a system: The whole has ...

Working closely with the human capital director, he set about developing a “market shaper” culture—an organization perceived as driving the evolution of the sector—to stimulate more innovation and ...

Broadly defined, culture refers to the invisible belief systems, values, and norms that guide individuals’ behavior. 1 An organization’s culture, therefore, encompasses the shared values, beliefs, and ...