What Culture Assessments Should Capture The history of organisational culture measurement suggests that no single method or approach provides a complete account of organisational culture.[i] Typologies provide accessible descriptions of organisational ... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Understanding Culture: The art of seeing small There are four somewhat unrelated, yet similar, perspectives on considering small things. The first is a biblical verse that states, “Catch the foxes for us, The little foxes that are ruining the vineyards... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’ Peter Senge[i] It is often said that real understanding of a topic o... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Understanding where your workplace culture really comes from Organisational culture is one of those terms everyone uses, and no one defines quite the same way. At its simplest it is just “the way we do things around here.” That short …... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Total Quality Management, Business Process Re-engineering, and Learning Organisation. Most organisations facing problems reach for an intervention. Fewer ask which kind of intervention the situation demands. Even fewer have a conceptual framework that ... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

What Termites Reveal About the Social Contract of Culture A worker termite spends its entire life building a structure it will never own. It defends offspring it did not produce and, in most species, will never produce any of its … Continued The ... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Departmental or Strategic Organisation Development. Introduction Organisation Development (OD) has, since its formalisation in the mid-twentieth century, carried a persistent ambiguity of scope. In its most familiar guise, OD is a practice — a set of p... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Why Do Organisations Always End Up Looking the Same? Deep down, are they different? 1. The Central Puzzle: Despite the enormous differences between organisations in what they do, where they operate, and when they came into existence, they tend to fall ... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Strategic planning is too often reduced to an exercise: apply a framework, fill in a template, produce a document. There are many books and articles on strategy, strategic management, tools, and techniques to use and many more books on strategic …... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.