Organisational Culture Training
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What is Organisational Culture?
Organisational culture is invaluable with regards to leadership and management. This course will discuss corporate governance and its ethical impacts and implications on society and team dynamics. It will also discuss the variety of organisational cultures you will see exhibited across businesses around the globe, and how these organisational cultures affect teams, individuals, leadership systems and how they handle change.
Numerous management thinkers have studied organisational culture and attempted to classify different types of culture. The following approaches may help assess and understand the culture of an organisation but also illustrate its inherent complexity.
Observers should recognise that an organisation’s culture can be viewed from multiple angles and that its characteristics can be reflected in several overlapping dimensions.
Important models discussed here include those from:
Adizes's Corporate Life Cycle Model
Read about Dr Ichak Adizes' simple 10 stage Corporate Life Cycle model that defines the typical stages a business will pass through.
An Introduction to Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance is a mechanism for regulating risk in corporate activities, averting corporate disasters, scandals and damage or losses to investors.
Atkinson's Flexible–Firm Model
The Flexible-Firm Model is a technique used to optimise the allocation of human resources in accordance with market instability and workforce flexibility.
Corporate Governance
A complete overview of the field of corporate governance, from the history, scandals and disasters, USA and EU governance to free to use templates.
Corporate Governance: BCCI Case Study
A case study exploring the implications that Bank of Credit and Commerce International's (BCCI) operations had on global standards in trade.
Corporate Governance: Deepwater Horizon Disaster
A case study exploring the contributing factors and outcomes of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster.
Corporate Governance: Global Financial Crisis
A brief outline of the 2007/08 global financial crisis and how the global financial crisis influenced corporate government legislation.
Corporate Responsibility and Ethics
Ethical decision–making is the basis of ethical organisations, corporate social responsibility, 'Fairtrade', sustainability and the 'triple bottom line'.
Driving Employee Engagement
Behavioural researcher and author Dan Pink discusses various tactics leaders may employ to motivate and drive individual engagement from their staff.
Edgar Schein Model – Organisational Culture
An overview of the Edgar Schein model of organisational culture theory. Details on the artefacts, values and assumed values of organisational culture.
Employee Engagement Overview
Exploring the concept of employee engagement, its importance and techniques for improving employee engagement in your organisation.
Factors Influencing Corporate Governance
4 factors that play a major role in influencing and driving corporate governance, plus details and reasons for their influence and why they need monitoring.
Gung Ho! – Ken Blanchard
Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles's Gung Ho!® is a recently licensed methodology for developing and improving organisational culture and performance.
Hofstede's Model of Organisational Culture
Exploring Geert Hofstede's 5 factors that influence the culture of a workplace and how to improve your workplace by changing them.
How Organisational Cultures Affect Performance
Exploring how different types of organisational culture impact on the overall performance of employees and their advantages and how to implement them.
Introduction to Charles Handy's Model of Organisational Culture
Charles Handy's model of Organisational Culture is an important and easy-to-understand framework for characterising different company cultures.
Likert's Management Systems: Organisational Dynamics
Rensis Likert's Management Systems are powerful theories of leadership which highlight various organisational dynamics and characteristics.
Shamrock Organisations – Organisational Development
Charles Handy's concept is an organisational culture model used to map the structure of a company and plan company change and development.
Six Questions to Increase Employee Engagement
Leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith discusses the qualities required to galvanise a team and drive results. He outlines this in the form of six questions.
The Cultural Web Model – Johnson and Scholes
Johnson and Scholes' Cultural Web is an important role in the understanding and control of organisational culture.
Types of Organisational Culture
Many have studied organisational culture and attempted to classify the different types. Here, we will outline some of these and their characteristics.
What Influences Organisational Culture?
There are a number of different factors that can impact a company's culture. These can come from both internal and external sources.
What is Corporate Social Responsibility?
CSR determines how to should make strategic decisions for your organisation in an ethical, sustainable and responsible way. Learn key aspects of CSR here.