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Organizational Culture & Leadership
"Some are born great,
some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon 'em"
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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• Culture a phenomenon that surrounds us all.
• Culture helps us understand how it is created, embedded, developed, manipulated, managed, and changed.
• Culture defines leadership.
• Understand the culture to understand the organization.
Defining Organizational Culture
• Culture is customs and rights.
• Good managers must work from a more anthropological model.
• Each org has its own way and an outsider brings his/her baggage as observer.
• Understand new environment and culture before change or observation can be made.
1. Observe behavior: language, customs, traditions
2. Groups norms: standards and values
3. Espoused values: published, publicly announced values.
4. Formal Philosophy: mission
5. Rules of the Game: rules to all in org
6. Climate:......

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