A positive, aligned organizational culture is easy to recognize: Productivity soars, employees are satisfied and empowered, processes are clear and effective — in short, everything seems just to hum ...

One of the biggest misunderstandings I see is that a great organizational culture is the result of getting everyone together, having parties and rewarding employees. People think of things like ...

Theory on organizational culture posits that there are three layers of culture, each with their own distinctive definitions and meanings. Starting from the outside and moving inward, we first have the ...

Learn Edgar Schein’s management theory and how to apply artifacts, espoused values and basic assumptions to build a stronger company culture.

Organizational culture is often described as “the way we do things around here.” But, in reality, culture is more than just behaviors. It’s the deeply embedded beliefs, values, and assumptions that ...

Join Kevin Oakes, i4cp founder and author of the best-selling book Culture Renovation®, as he shares research and examples of how leading organizations intentionally shape culture, and why recognition ...

This story may or may not be true, but Gail Berger, Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, finds it useful to explain how ...

When different organizational cultures—the proverbial “how we do things”—come together, tensions frequently arise. Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when ...

As so many of my fellow nonprofit leaders know, people are essential to the work we do. Those of us who choose careers in the social sector are driven by our passion and commitment to advance positive ...

As part of my ongoing research into the determinants of success and failure in artificial intelligence implementations, one early and consistent finding has emerged: AI is as much a social, cultural, ...