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It is believed that the headlong pursuit of growth almost led to the collapse of the United Kingdom's financial system. Organizations will need to develop leaders who can manage their own sustainability first in order to build long-term sustainability. Effective leaders also play an active role in determining how they engage with an organization's culture.

An excerpt from 'Beyond the Wall of Resistance: Why 70% of All Changes Still Fail - and What You Can Do About It, 2d. ed.' is presented. It was observed that people in organizations already have knowledge on changes, however, they fail to turn this knowledge into action. Recommendations on handling changes in organizational culture are given.

Transparency is an attribute of corporate culture that's revealed through the behaviors of an organization's leaders, employees, and stakeholders. It's how values are embodied and demonstrated on a day-to-day basis. [...]

Last summer, an internal Netflix file found its way onto the Internet. The 128 PowerPoint slides set out the company's culture and talent management strategy. Observers speculated how leaders at [...]

How IBM changed its focus from hardware sales to selling information technology services business is discussed. IBM CEO Lou Gerstner was instrumental in changing IBM's culture when he refocused on customers' needs and changed its internal ethos as well. IBM's structure has become democratic, global and uses cutting-edge technology to help its workers provide business solutions.

In this article ... Look at an approach to create a strong organizational culture that successfully focuses on people and systems. Organizational culture is a matter of interest to companies [...]

As the empirical literature on the successful implementation and use of evidence-based practices (EBPs) continues to increase, corrections practitioners are increasingly being called upon to adopt and implement these practices [...]

Inc.'s Best Places to Work feature exemplifies success that extends well beyond revenue and Includes Innovation, creativity and company culture. So what are the elements of a great company?Achieving greatness [...]

Information about human resource (HR) practices at John Lewis Partnership is presented. The company is 100% owned by its employees, and is spared the short-term share price chasing of some of its rivals. One of the HR challenges faced by the organization is making sure the partnership retains its unique culture.

In project management, we've heard it before in some form or another. 'Don't reinvent the wheel.' 'Let's not reinvent the wheel.' 'We're not reinventing the wheel here, are we?' It [...]

The culture is the single biggest thing to change to overcome inertia in government. It is advised to develop a leadership model that aligns an employee's life, work, and organization around a mission to keep a government agency's employee engaged.

A company that can methodically transform itself and allow employees to give unorthodox ideas has a culture that provides the company with a competitive advantage. Companies should drop traditional practices, use slack and liberate ideas. Examples of innovative organizations are given.

A business either grows through reinvestment of its own surpluses or other types of internal infusions, or it buys another entity, or it sells part or all of itself. After [...]

If I asked your employees, "What's it like to work at your company? What kind of place is it?" their answers would largely describe your company culture. How would your […]

The strategies employed by three Western companies in integrating organizational culture and human resources of their target Korean companies are analyzed with regards to the employees' reception. Results showed that employees of the target Korean companies appreciated the changes in organizational culture and human resource management imposed by the acquiring U.S., French, and German firms.

Today's workforce includes at least four generations that span more than 60 years. HR's ability to work with management to cultivate a preferred organizational culture through succession planning initiatives, including recruitment, training and development, and retention programs is increasingly important to organizational success. This article explores issues relating to a generational perspective of age-based values, attitudes and norms within a multigenerational workforce and potential implications for HR in shaping organizational culture through the succession planning process., 'Managers, unlike parents, must work with used, not new human beings--human beings whom others have gotten to first.' (1) Through succession planning, an organization identifies and develops strategies aimed at [...]

THE COMMITTEE OF SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS of the Treadway Commission's (COSO's) Internal Control-Integrated Framework provides a definition of internal control that includes five elements: control environment, risk assessment, control activities, information [...]

Organizational culture is a concept widely understood on the surface. The focus of several books, it's a construct like weather and social status, which has been invented by people who [...]

Sounds wrong, doesn't it? A 'pitfall' of a 'strong culture'? We all have a generally positive view of the term 'culture,' but the author discusses how a strong culture can [...]