Changing Culture in Organizations

Adapted from the
Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development and
Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development with Nonprofits

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Consulting and Organizational Development

Cultural change is a form of organizational transformation, that is, radical and fundamental form of change. Cultural change involves changing the basic values, norms, beliefs, etc., among members of the organization in order to improve organizational performance.

Sections of This Topic Include:

Various Perspectives
Various Other Performance Improvement Programs and Movements

Various Perspectives

ASTD
Leader to Leader: Spring 1999
Changing Culture and Change Stories
Changing Culture and Managing Change
Changing the Culture in your Business
16 Ways to Derail Your Attempt at Building a Performance Culture

Various Other Performance Programs and Movements (depending on how they're used)

The following can be organizational improvement programs, depending on how they're used. (See Broad Overview of Various Programs and Movements (see Note #1 below.)
Balanced Scorecard
Benchmarking
BusinessProcess Re-Engineering
Continuous Improvement
ISO9000
Knowledge Management
Management by Objectives
Organizational Learning
Outcomes-Based Evaluation
Program Evaluation
Strategic Planning
Total Quality Management
How Many Companies Lose That Loving Feeling

For the Category of Organizational Development:

Recommended Books

Managing Organizational Change

Growing Your Organization

Managing Organizational Change

Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development: by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides complete, step-by-step guidelines to identify complex issues in for-profit or government organizations and successfully resolve each of them. This book is also helpful to organizations that are doing fine now, but want to evolve to the next level of performance. This is one of the truly comprehensive, yet practical, books about this complex subject! Includes online forms that can be downloaded. Many materials in this Library's topic about guiding change are adapted from this comprehensive book.

Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational Development With Nonprofits: by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides complete, step-by-step guidelines to identify complex issues in nonprofit organizations and successfully resolve each of them. This book is also helpful to organizations that are doing fine now, but want to evolve to the next level of performance. This is one of the truly comprehensive, yet practical, books about this complex subject! Includes online forms that can be downloaded. Many materials in this Library's topic about guiding change are adapted from this comprehensive book.

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