Building Performance Cultures
What is an organizational ‘performance culture’?
Simply, it is a culture which creates superior business results in an organization.
What is culture?
Some definitions are…
Culture is ‘How things are done around here’. It is what is typical of the organization, the habits, the prevailing attitudes, and the grown-up pattern of accepted and expected behaviour.
(Drennan, 1992)
..a culture is not something an organization has; a culture is something the organization is.
(Pacanowsky & O’Donnell-Trujillo, 1983)
In talking about culture we are really talking about a process of reality construction that allows people to see and understand particular events, actions, objects, utterances, or situations in distinctive ways. These patterns of understanding also provide a basis for making one’s own behaviour sensible and meaningful.
(Morgan, 1986)
What impacts corporate culture the most?
- Leadership
- Performance Systems
- Individual Personalities
- External Influences
Other important influences
- Management systems in general
- Collective memory
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