CANADIAN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE STUDY Waterloo Wellington WWTAB is funded by and Prepared for WWTAB by Tamara Darling August 2005 0 WWTAB would like to acknowledge project support and assistance from: The Waterloo Region District School Board and The New Canadian Program The views expressed in this document do not necessarily reflect those of the Government of Canada or the Government of Ontario 1 CANADIAN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE STUDY Table of Contents Summary……………………………………………………………………………
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There is no single definition for organizational culture. The topic has been studied from a variety of perspectives ranging from disciplines such as anthropology and sociology‚ to the applied disciplines of organizational behaviour‚ management science‚ and organizational communication. Some of the definitions are listed below: A set of common understandings around which action is organized; finding expression in language whose nuances are peculiar to the group (Becker and Geer 1960). A set of understandings
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DIFFERENT CULTURES‚ DIFFERENT RATIONALITIES? Peter Winch ’s remarkable essay‚ ’Understanding a Primitive Society ’ (Winch‚ 1964) raised several deep and troubling questions and offered some no less deep and troubling answers. It was the essay of a philosopher inspired by Wittgenstein‚ who had questioned the very idea of a social science‚ reflecting upon and‚ indeed‚ criticizing the interpretation of witchcraft in one of the classics of twentieth-century anthropology‚ Evans-Pritchard ’s Witchcraft
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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR DIVERSITY COMMUNICATION ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND GROUP DYNAMICS MGT/307 July 20‚ 2010 Organizational Culture is the system of shared actions‚ values‚ and beliefs that has developed within an organization and guides the behavior of its members. Organizational Development consists of special applications of knowledge gained from behavioral science to create a comprehensive design to improve organizational effectiveness. Through the collective
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sustain strong organizational cultures if their organizations are going to compete and survive in the 21st century. Organizational ‘culture’ and ‘leadership’ are the two interrelated terms without which an organization cannot sustain for a long term. Although these two terms are very different from each other in their definition or meaning yet they are very much interconnected. An organization without a leader is just like a ship without a captain and without a strong culture‚ the organization
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Relationship between Organizational Culture and Performance Management Practices: A Case of University in Pakistan Ul Mujeeb Ehtesham‚ Tahir Masood Muhammad‚ Shakil Ahmad Muhammad Abstract The aim of this study is to expand the base of knowledge and empirically test the relationship between the components of organizational culture and performance management practices. The study adopted the exploratory research approach to explore the impact. In this study‚ primary data was collected through
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October 2014 Different Country‚ Different Culture A country is just like an onion; the innermost skin is Culture. Culture is like the soul of a country. All countries have their own unique cultures to live by‚ which means that people who have grown up in different places will have different ways of behaving‚ different ways of thinking about things and different ways of expressing themselves. Each country has its own culture‚ and there are many differences between different countries in culture. Those differences
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tricky at best‚ impossible at worst. One way that manager’s and companies can promote the concept of being a learning organization is to assess whether the company is in need of a short-term fix or whether it is more focused on long-term results. Organizational learning is a long-term activity that will build competitive advantage over time and requires sustained management attention‚ commitment‚ and effort. Learning organizations maximize their competitive positions during strong economic times and
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The fact and fantasy of organizational culture management: a case study of Greek food retailing Cardiff Business School‚ Cardiff University‚ Colum Drive‚ Cardiff‚ CF10 3EU‚ UK Abstract The management‚ manipulation or interference in organizational culture has become central to many theories and prescriptions of management. However‚ despite frequent prescriptions to manage culture in diverse national contexts‚ little empirical evidence has been forwarded in contexts other than the UK and
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ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE Lesley Willcoxson & Bruce Millett ABSTRACT Culture is a term that is used regularly in workplace discussions. It is taken for granted that we understand what it means. The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss some of the significant issues relating to the management of an organisation’s culture. As organisational cultures are born within the context of broader cultural contexts such as national or ethic groupings‚ the paper will commence by defining ‘culture’ in the wider
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