Organizational Culture Ignorance, Quackery or Play Your Culture

by Jager, Cisca; Waisfisz, Bob

• ISBN13: 9791281627420
• ISBN10: 1281627429
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-06-01
• Publisher: EGEA Spa - Bocconi University Press

Summary

The book examines the distinctive traits of organizational culture – including symbols, behaviors, attitudes, rituals, and beliefs – and introduces an original, rigorous classification model. This model is built on elements such as identity, core values, satisfaction levels, interpersonal relations, the connection between happiness and personal performance, and organizational goals. The book also provides practical tools for assessing how effectively an organization's culture is aligned with its strategic objectives and for implementing necessary changes in a positive and lighthearted way.

Author Biography

she is the owner of AXION Dutch Training Company. With his experience, she offers numerous institutions, corporations, entities and companies, both public and private, a strategic and operational contribution through consulting, training interventions, coaching and counseling. Through Personal Coaching and Counseling she offers Administrators, Apex Executives, Public Personalities, the opportunity to shape their personal and/or professional sphere. a Dutch economist and anthropologist, collaborated for years with Geert Hofstede, with whom he co-founded the Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation, and from whose work he developed his original model for analyzing organizational cultures. To assist management consultants in supporting their clients to meet their objectives, he constructed a fully integrated toolkit that is used by organizations in all industries on the 5 continents to match their culture with their strategy.

Table of Contents

1. The Basics: Organizational culture, a concept not always well understood 2. How to manage OC successfully? 3. Content: a description of the model 4. Scan your culture and functional diversity 5. The new architecture 6. Describe your road map 7. Change management in a changing world 8. Capita selecta