StrategyDriven Corporate Cultures Forum
Organization members share a collective values system reflected in managerial decisions, individual behaviors, and codified within operating procedures. These values are shaped by both individual beliefs and collective experiences. Taken together, these values form the corporation’s culture.
Corporate culture contributes or detracts from the organization’s success. Regardless of the company’s written objectives, the existing culture will drive the critical decisions and actions that ultimately determine whether or not these goals will be achieved. Therefore, it is not only important to critically and honestly identify the organization’s culture but to also assess the organization’s ability to achieve its mission goals via its chose strategy in light of its culture. Where gaps exist, either the culture or strategy must be changed in order to achieve optimal success.
Finally, it is important to recognize that there is no ‘right’ culture and that no one set of organizational values is superior to another. Rather, differing cultures each present a unique set of benefits and liabilities that should be identified, understood, and incorporated into the organization’s planning and execution process so to ensure optimal organizational effectiveness.
Focus of the Corporate Cultures Forum
Materials within this forum will address the methods to identify the organization’s values and the various value sets, their benefits and their drawbacks.
- Culture Trumps Strategy [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- Why Policies Don’t Match Actions [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- Culture’s Impact on How Work Gets Done [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- Culture Change Penalty [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- What Does Your Environment Communicate? [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- How Stressful is Your Workplace Environment? [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
StrategyDriven Expert Contributor Articles
- Leading Through Turbulent Times by Ed Cohen and Priscilla Nelson
- Inspiring Employees with a Values-Rich Environment by Ann Rhoades
- “Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company by John Hamm
Podcasts
StrategyDriven Podcast – Special Edition
Resources
Whitepapers
Models
- Culture-based Work Performance Model [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- Individual Initiated, Documented Processes Controlled Environment [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- Individual Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- Supervisor Initiated, Documented Processes Controlled Environment [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- Supervisor Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- Supervisor Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- Leader Initiated, Documented Processes Controlled Environment [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- Leader Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment [StrategyDriven Premium Content]
- Leader Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment [StrategyDriven Premium Content]