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How to Assess Organizational Culture
Before embarking on any culture change, maybe you’ll want to assess the existing organizational culture first. For a whole course on Organizational Culture, hop over to our sister channel, Management Courses, and check out the full...
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What are Edgar Schein's Two Organizational Cultures?
In this video, we look at two opposed cultures that Schein defined, to give us our first, and simplest, introduction to the many different organizational models available. Schein's two organizational cultures have either an authority...
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What is the Adhocracy Organizational Model?
When did bureaucracy become a dirty word? Almost certainly when the idea of adhocracy emerged. The two are polar opposites: radically different ways to coordinate an organization. The one a set of rules and systems that overlay...
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William Ouchi: Theory Z Organizations and Motivation
One of our most popular videos is the one about Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y. As a result, people have asked me about Theory Z. Theory Z, which was developed by William Ouchi, to describe the adoption of Japanese ideas of...
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Edgar Schein's 3 Levels of Organizational Culture
Edgar Schein, of the Sloan School of Management, was interested in understanding organizational culture. He analyzed organizations into three distinct levels of organizational culture: artifacts (the surface manifestations of culture),...
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National Culture within an Organization: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cultural Dimensions
In his book, Culture’s Consequences, Dutch cultural psychologist Geert Hofstede, brought the term Organizational Culture into common use. His original work at IBM identified 4 dimensions of national culture. Later, he extended this to 6...
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How we Work: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cross-Organization Cultural Dimensions
In the 1980s, the Dutch cultural psychologist Geert Hofstede returned to the study of culture, but focused on an analysis of organizational practices. The authors identified six cross-organizational dimensions that separate and define...
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Harold Geneen: Data-driven Charismatic Organization
Harold Geneen was a successful business leader that transformed an ailing business, ITT, into a Data-driven Charismatic Organization. Under his leadership, it grew and grew.
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Edgar Schein: The Master of Organizational Culture
Edgar Schein is a social psychologist who has introduced many ideas around organizations and organizational culture. His thinking is at the heart of the subject.
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What is an Organization? - the Nature of Organizations
This is the first video of our course on the nature of organizations, so we answer the question: 'What is an Organization?'
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What is Charles Handy's Triple-I Company?
The Triple-I company is the primary home of 21st century knowledge workers. So, what is it?
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Introduction to Organizational Culture
Organizational Culture sits in the background of an organization: Collective patterns of behavior: its habits and rituals. It’s like the organization’s personality.
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What is the Cultural Web? Johnson & Scholes on Where Culture Originates
The Cultural Web of an organization is a model developed by Gerry Johnson and Kevan Scholes.
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Quinn and Cameron: Competing Values Model of Organizational Culture
Robert Quinn and Kim Cameron created a model of four organizational cultures. The Quinn and Cameron model is known as a “competing values framework” because it starts from two pairs of competing values.
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Max Weber: The Father of Organizational Theory
Max Weber was a professor of political economy at the University of Freiberg. But he is known as the ‘Father of Organizational Theory’.
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Charles Handy: Philosopher of Organizations
Charles Handy has been the source of a stream of ideas about organizations. We have four other videos about Handy's individual ideas. This one draws them together.
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Dimensions of Organizational Culture
What are the Dimensions of Organizational Culture
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Culture as Organizational Communication
What is Culture as Organizational Communication?
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Creation and Maintenance of Organizational Culture
How do you create organizational culture? How do you maintain organizational culture?
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Attraction Selection Attrition Model
What is the Attraction - Selection - Attrition Model? The theory explains that similar people are selected and attracted by organizations, while dissimilar people are likely to leave these organizations due to attrition
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Organizational Culture Profile
What is the Organizational Culture Profile? The organizational culture profile is used to understand what is an organization's primary cultural characteristics.
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Organizational Culture
What is organizational culture? Organizational culture includes the collective or shared values, attitudes, beliefs, and visions.
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Levels of Organizational Culture
What are the levels of organizational culture?
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Handy's Organisational Culture Model - Simplest Explanation Ever
Charles Handy's Model is a way to categorise organisational cultures. Understanding organisational cultures goes a long way in ensuring employee satisfaction and motivation in business today.