Top Three Course Takeaways
- Understand how organizations create, refine, evolve, and reinforce their cultures.
- Analyze the cultures of diverse organizations.
- Assess organizational cultures and develop implementable and value adding recommendations for improvement.
Course Topics
Cultural Artifacts, Values, and Assumptions
Developing, Managing, and Changing Organizational Culture
Mission Statements
Contextualizing Organizational Cultures
Cultural Analysis
Course Intensity:
Course Description
Just as people have different cultures, organizations (such as corporations, schools, non-profits, armed forces, hospitals, and churches) have their own cultures too.
In this course, students will examine how organizations refine, alter, and reinforce their cultures. Attention will be paid to the practices of people who shape organizational culture. Students will assess their own organizations and recommend how their organization can improve its culture.
Learning Outcomes
Develop a conceptualization of organizational culture and apply this conceptualization to an organization
Identify how the cultural artifacts, values, and assumptions of an organization contribute to or shape its culture, including work organizations
Demonstrate how an organization’s culture can be assessed
- Utilize tools necessary to conduct a cultural assessment of an organization