Culture as the Gatekeeper to Success: Realize, Reorganize, Run With It
Thank you to all who attended and contributed to this engaging AOM-sponsored panel discussion!
Culture can be seen as a gatekeeper to driving success in organizations of various types and demographic profiles. Organizational conditions shape members’ understanding of the expected ways to behave at work, thus creating the overall culture. The resulting shared expected behaviors govern effectiveness criteria, such as creating fruitful policy, formulating purpose, and overall effectiveness, including innovation. The challenge for change agents and managers is discovering how to uncover and manage the change process, given members’ different identities, values, and ethnic backgrounds.
To address this challenge, panelists discussed their experience with various organizational environments, specifically a not-for-profit in the process of succession planning, a police department under pressure to rebuild trust in the community, an organization expanding globally, and organizational culture measurement and application, specifically the Organizational Culture Inventory® (OCI®).
