Culture change

About: Culture change is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1531 publications have been published within this topic receiving 41922 citations. The topic is also known as: cultural change & culture changes.

Conversion and Culture Change

Abstract: In his analysis of the process of culture change, Mr. Kietzman reduces the problem basically to a series of interactions of various kinds between individuals. These individuals represent the local culture, and the West (in the case of the missionary) in their ways of behaving. The interaction is not only between the two different cultural groups, but also within them, among individuals with varying predispositions, backgrounds, and points of view. The agents of conversion are the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. These also bring about culture change by working through individuals to whom they have spoken.

The impact leadership has on training and change.

Abstract: * Training alone often misses the mark. One tenth of one percent of all change initiatives lead to any kind of positive sustainable change that can be attributed to the effect of the training. One out of every thousand training programs, culture change initiatives, experiential interventions, actually in-and-of-themselves appear to have the intended effect. * The results an organization is experiencing (good or bad) are a product of the organizational/work design and management system. Results do not create themselves. They are a consequence, a determined outcome of all the ingredients of the organization. * Many leaders deal with the symptoms of a problem instead of focusing on the root cause. * Working on oneself and then leading the training (whatever it is) is the best way to ensure results for you and your team.

Evaluation of two approaches to organizational change for small and medium sized businesses

Abstract: This study examines two different approaches to organizational change: one focusing on solving specific problems and the other focusing on changing the organizational culture. The opportunity for the author to evaluate the different approaches came about because a government-financed development agency working to develop a specific region of the UK, wanted to know how best to allocate its scarce resources to initiate change to improve productivity in assembly and manufacturing industries. Both approaches had been used recently but the agency wanted an objective assessment of their strengths and weaknesses before deciding to promote one or the other. The evaluation showed that both models could produce good results. However, the scope, scale and impact of the problem solving approach was much less than the culture change approach. This was primarily due to the changes in values and commitment of staff and their willingness to initiate change projects and be part of the change process.

Predictors of Adaptation among Adolescents from Immigrant Families in Portugal

Abstract: INTRODUCTIONImmigration is changing the cultural and ethnic composition of many countries (U.N. Population Report, 2002). Immigration and ethnic minority issues pose major social and political challenges to contemporary Europe. However as PhalJet and Koste (2006, pp. 332333) pointed out "still, we are far from a coherent comparative and applied psychological research agenda that fully incorporates the complexities of rapidly changing European societies and cities". For these authors, one reason why European acculturation research has not yet realized its full comparative potential is the persistence of distinct national vocabularies and understanding of migration and multiculturalism. Another reason may be linked to me conceptual level. For example, "the notion of acculturation is not directly addressed by Francophone researchers who prefer the concepts of interculturation, socialization or otherness" (Sabatier & Boutry, 2006, p. 364).In response to rapidly changing demographics, many psychologists are focusing their efforts to better understand me impact of culture and acculturation on adaptation (Ward, Bochner, & Furnham, 2001). Acculturation is a term which has been defined as culture change that results from continuous, first hand contact between two distinct cultural groups (Redfield, Linton, & Herskovits, 1936). While originally proposed as a group-level phenomenon it is now also widely recognized as an individual phenomenon and it is termed psychological acculturation (Graves, 1967). At Ulis second level, acculturation refers to changes in behaviors, attitudes, values, and identities of individuals whose reference groups are experiencing acculturation. While psychological acculturation refers to the changes resulting from intercultural encounters at the individual level, the term adaptation is used to describe the personal long-term outcomes of these processes. Adaptation has been commonly referred to as the level of "fit" between the acculturating individual and the mainstream cultural context (Berry, 1997).Much research has been done on factors promoting the adaptation of immigrants during acculturation. However, on the one hand, empirical findings have been mixed as some studies linked greater acculturation to poorer adaptation, whereas others demonstrated a favorable relationship or no association at all (Koneru et al., 2007). The autiiors pointed out that die inconsistency in how and what aspects of acculturation are measured may be a primary reason for the disparate findings within the adaptation literature. Koneru et al. (2007) have argued that future studies focusing on acculturation and adaptation would benefit from using multidimensional measures. In the present study, we have considered several facets of the acculturation (e.g., attitudes, behaviors, values) of young immigrants since little is known about this age group. We also examine factors that may protect adolescents from negative experiences related to their ethnocultural group (Berry, Phinney, Sam, & Vedder, 2006). Specifically, the study focuses on the adaptation of immigrant adolescents in Portugal, a group that has not been studied much by immigration researchers.This study examines the effect of intercultural contact on the well being and social adaptation of immigrant youth living in Portugal. In this paper immigrant youth is an inclusive term that refers to both immigrant children and to children of immigrants. It thus incorporates both first generation (born in the. country of origin) and second generation youth (born in the receiving society or arriving there before age 7). The term ethnic culture refers to the culture of the society of origin of the immigrants and of their descendants and the term national culture refers to the culture of the society of settlement (Berry et al., 2006). However the difference between "ethnic" and "national" is a relative one. What is "ethnic" in the country of immigration used to be "national" in the context of the country of origin. …