Presents the story of a managing director and his team adopting management development as a positive contributor to a massive and urgent change of strategy within a company. Examines the way that total cultural change within the company was achieved. Focuses particularly on those processes,...

Cultures can be said to be an ostensive concept, reflected by visible manifestations rather than abstract definitions. Organisation cultures are underpinned not only by imposed procedures and structures, leadership example and environmental considerations, but by social and economic ideologies...

Explains the advantages of using a culture survey as part of an organization′s change effort and examines the use of culture surveys in information gathering and communication. Culture surveys, used properly, become invaluable in guiding change. Used improperly, however, they can be...

Builds on work within The Lawson Mardon Group – one of the world′s largest packaging firms. Reviews, in particular, discontinuous change and the relationship between responsiveness and organizational learning – the latter expressed as a model identifies different organizational development...

Argues that groups within the organization play a significant role in enabling it to face a hostile environment. Describes how groups translate their culture into work patterns and argues that this is an important factor in any change programme. Questions the motives and effectiveness of culture...

Implementation is the challenge that comes at the end of all new (and old) methods for improving organizations. Strategic planning, total quality management, new information systems technologies, and now business process re‐engineering(BPR) are some of the concepts that are being advocated to...

Illustrates how organizational culture can stifle effective problem solving and decision making. In the organization in question this had critical implications for quality, staff retention and organizational change. The myopic, non‐innovative generation of apparent solutions to major...

To improve the likelihood of system success and user involvement, an MIS department manager has to deal with people and lead them under given user styles and organizational culture. For this reason, the managerial behaviour of MIS managers plays an important role in developing MIS. First...

Results of a survey of Canadian work organizations reveal a broad set of gendered values embedded in organizational cultures. The findings of this study show stereotypically masculine values in the culture of these organizations and a desired change toward a culture that is more friendly, less...

Focuses on downsizing and reviews selected research on organizational change and downsizing. Addresses the issues of “survivors”, and also covers the strategic concerns in planning a downsizing operation and attempts to determine some specific reasons why some companies succeed at downsizing...