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Corporate Cultures – Supervisor Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment

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The Supervisor Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment is the centerpoint of StrategyDriven Culture-base Work Performance Model. This culture set represents a moderation of most benefits and risks. Subsequently, organizations can more easily flex in the cultural direction needed to implement a change. Conversely, these moderated cultural characteristics may lack the significant intensity necessary to rapidly drive change.

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Corporate Cultures – The Culture Change Penalty

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StrategyDriven Corporate Cultures ArticleChanging an organization’s culture is extremely difficult. Doing so requires the alteration of the commonly held values of the entire workforce, beliefs that have been embedded in the organization’s policies and procedures and reinforced over an extended period of time; beliefs that many will hold as the company’s definition of right and wrong. Subsequently, changing a company’s culture will almost assuredly be met with significant resistance.

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Corporate Cultures – Individual Initiated, Rules and Standards Controlled Environment

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The Individual Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment represents a culture that is moving toward greater consistency in action if not action initiation. These organizations are still largely guided by local controls and individual contributors and lack the more rigorous oversight and activity reinforcement realized in supervisory and leader led companies. Thus, these organizations gain a limited amount of increased consistency while still maintaining a high level of innovation and flexibility.

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Corporate Cultures – Supervisor Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment

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The Supervisor Initiated, Knowledge and Skills Controlled Environment represents a somewhat centrally controlled environment. This culture set benefits from greater local control than the leader initiated organization while still maintaining a degree of oversight that enhances centralized direction setting as compared with individual initiated cultures. However, the general lack of guiding processes or standards allows a great deal of operational flexibility; limiting the degree of consistency gained by these organizations.

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Recommended Resource – Soup: A recipe to nourish your team and culture

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Soup: A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture
by Jon Gordon

About the Reference

Soup: A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture a business novel by Jon Gordon illustrates the significant impact senior leaders have on setting and nurturing their organization’s culture. Jon goes on to reveal how culture, in-turn, drives performance and ultimately an organization’s success.

Benefits of Using this Reference

StrategyDriven Contributors believe leaders at the top set the tone and tenor of the organization’s performance; that the workforce will, over time, embody a set of beliefs aligned with senior management’s decisions and actions.

StrategyDriven Contributors like Soup for the way in which the relationship between senior leader decisions and actions, organizational beliefs and work ethic, and overall company results is illustrated. Through the story of Soup, Inc., Jon reveals the nuances of decisions and actions by a CEO and how these effect those immediately around her and are then translated throughout the workforce. These easy-to-relate-to interactions follow closely with our own experience with personnel reactions in the workplace; making Soup‘s lessons both real and applicable.

The lessons in Soup go one step further; illustrating in an implementable step-by-step fashion how to positively impact and change an organization’s culture.

Soup‘s insights and implementable actions on how to constructively improve an organization’s culture makes it a StrategyDriven recommended read.