QUESTION 44
WHAT IS THE ORGANISATION’S CULTURE AND DOES IT SUIT ME?
Why it’s important: To be an effective manager you have to understand and be able to work with the dominant organisational culture.
Organisational culture is ephemeral and difficult to define. Terrence Deal and Allan Kennedy defined it as ‘The way we do things around here’ and, by extension, ‘What we value around here’. If as a manager you act contrary to the accepted norms of the organisation, you’ll find your career going nowhere unless you have been specifically employed to shake the organisation up and change its culture.
A quick and easy way to identify your organisation’s culture is to use Charles Handy’s four cultures model to analyse your organisation’s culture and your ...
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