A culture for organizational change
Every community of people, from the smallest of teams to the largest of nations, will have a culture—a thread that serves as the identity of the community. A community uses its culture to identify its norms and indicate what makes that community different from other communities.
It is the organization’s responsibility to determine whether its culture is servicing the needs of the organization and allowing it to grow and prosper. The first part of this is the self-inspection of whether the culture is beneficial to the organization. After that analysis, the organization can decide on actions to change the culture.
What kind of culture?
In 1988, Ron Westrum was studying how to improve safety on medical teams when he came upon the idea of examining the culture of those teams. He looked at how these organizations handled information and came up with a typology consisting of three types of cultures. The cultures are identified as...