Managing Culture
Module 13 is about managing culture. Allocate your words carefully among the following three questions: 1. What are your top three takeaways from this article, i.e. the three things that stuck with you in terms of how and why to manage organizations culture. WHY do you think those three lessons are important? Using personal examples is a powerful way to support your opinions, especially personal examples that relate to your work history. 2. Give an example of a strong or weak culture at an organization you have been a part of. Was agreement and intensity high or low? What was the impact of the culture on you and the others in the organization? 3. Which of the other managerial and personal skills and strengths that we have discussed this semester will help you manage workplace culture in the future? Be specific: name a specific skill/strength and link it directly to something that Chatman says is important to managing culture. For example: As a Pioneer I dont mind ambiguity and risk (Buckingham, p.123) and that will help me manage the adaptive culture that I want to work in for my career because as Chatman says on page 24 about adaptive cultures: innovation may depend more on whether cultural norms support risk-taking and change” Finally, at the risk of dampening your creativity, please identify the three parts of your essay by number so that I know when you are answering the questions for part one above, part two and part three. Think of the three sections above as three separate essay questions.
