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What is “Company” or “Corporate Culture”?
An organization's culture is an intuitive concept. Everyone knows that different organizations seem to 'feel' differently from each other. This 'feeling' seems to be a Gestalt or a product of several factors or influencing forces. Among these factors are, the tasks that the organization undertakes, it’s standing in the community and the personalities of the staff and management.
The truth of the matter is that an organization’s culture is highly complex, consisting of many confounding variables and of great importance with regard to the efficient pursuit of change and improvement. No matter how well developed a managerial change strategy is it can be completely destroyed if the organisational culture rejects it.
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In an attempt to understand the forces and influences at work within a corporate culture a model has to be formulated. The model should behave in the same way as the cultural phenomenon that it represents. Further the model should inculcate the factors and relationships that can be observed as being formative drivers of organizational culture. As culture is rather ethereal the model can only be representative, which suggests that it cannot be a facsimile of a given culture. |
DCI Definition
We define it as “the way we do things around here.”
¨ The way – behaviors
¨ We – groups and teams
¨ Do things – tasks/work
¨ Around here –locations
How we do it – Kappa 9
We provide insight into organizational culture through our holistic culture methodology called Kappa 9 and the application of a unique instrument (ICEä).
Kappa 9 allows organizations to make more informed decisions to improve performance and ultimately shareholder value.
Click on the Kappa 9 link below to review the DCI Culture methodology.
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