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Content Category Organisational Culture| Organisational Culture (14 items) |
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| From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Organizational culture is a concept in the field of Organizational studies and management which describes the attitudes, experiences, beliefs and values of an organization. It has been defined as "the specific collection of values and norms that are shared by people and groups in an organization and that control the way they interact with each other and with stakeholders outside the [read more] |
| 10 Ways to Improve Your Office Etiquette |
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| #1: Watch the volume of your voice Keep your voice at a reasonable level. Other people are trying to work, and your voice may distract them. Besides, do you really want them to overhear what you're saying? If you have something personal or otherwise sensitive to discuss, consider doing it in a private office or conference room. #2: Use speakerphones with care If [read more] |
| Changing The Culture Of Your Office |
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| In a business organisation, one thing that is vital to creating a positive and successful working environment is the build up of a strong teamworking atmosphere. Without a strong team, the business will struggle a great deal in seeing the results they want to see in their organisation. Building a good workforce will mean an increase in financial success, improved [read more] |
| Abuse of power is unacceptable |
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| Recently I worked with a client who had been the victim of sexual harassment. This normally confident, assertive woman, a senior executive in a major corporation, had fallen to pieces. She suffered from stomach pain and burst into tears at the drop of a hat. She had difficulty making decisions she would normally have made in an instant. Meeting her [read more] |
| Build a Company Culture That Serves, Sizzles & Succeeds |
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| A strong organizational culture drives challenge, performance, and positive behaviour. An organization is only as good as its people. But bright people have more options today than ever before. And good pay is no longer enough to hold the best. Are good people clamouring to join your organization, or are resignations climbing? Do your people come in early and voluntarily stay late, [read more] |
| Changing Spots |
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| Trying to change "What is" is impossible, but awareness, acceptance and clarity make the impossible easy to achieve In his article, "Corporate Culture: Use it Don't Lose it" Peter Drucker tells us that trying to change a corporation's culture is a waste of time. Cultures are simply too pervasive, too resistant to change. However rapid and radical improvement in performance can [read more] |
| Collaboration Foundation for Teamwork |
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| It is one thing to say that you have a collaborative work environment. It is completely another to actually achieve that kind of working environment. It is all well and good to say that you want your sales persons to work together on team sales initiatives but if your reward and recognition system is based on individual performance, you probably won't [read more] |
| Corporate Values Provide Strong Foundations for Training |
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| The values an organisation holds and shares with its people can be instilled and reinforced through its management education and development efforts. I once worked for an organisation that seemed to embody the epitome of the ideal. If fact, everything the management gurus suggest should be evident in the "excellent" organisation, was there. Employees who were dedicated, management who cared about [read more] |
| Hiring to Fit Your Corporate Culture |
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| Much has been made of the concept of corporate culture in recent years. Culture is an elusive quality of an organization and may best be defined as the collection of habits and beliefs that spell out, often unwritten, "the way we do things around here," to put it casually. However, as elusive culture is to define, most management experts agree that [read more] |
| Laughable target for competition |
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| "We want only people who are fanatics," the head of one of Australia's top four warrior strategic consulting firms (let's call them Bonco Group) told Mary, their would-be marketing consultant. "We don't want philosophers, people who are into working things through with people. We want people who will push things through." Mary, one of my clients, knew that she was being [read more] |
| SAFETY AND SECURITY IN THE WORKPLACE |
| There is renewed awareness regarding Safety and Security, which have taken precedence over all other subjects since the terrible tragedies of September 11, 2001, in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, which cost thousands of lives. Measures are being discussed to find the proper balance between ensuring safety and security and preserving people's right to privacy and civil liberties. I do [read more] |
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