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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.
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01 Jan 1996
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present findings from an ethnographic study which suggests that this attempt at "culture change" is aimed at manipulating the behaviour and values of individual employees and may be interpreted as a process of changing employee identity.
Abstract: Purpose – A recurring theme in Government policy documents has been the need to change the culture of the NHS in order to deliver a service “fit for the twenty‐first century”. However, very little is said about what constitutes “culture” or how this culture change is to be brought about. This paper seeks to focus on an initiative aimed ostensibly at “empowering” staff in an English Primary Care Trust as a means of changing organisational culture.Design/methodology/approach – It presents findings from an ethnographic study which suggests that this attempt at “culture change” is aimed at manipulating the behaviour and values of individual employees and may be interpreted as a process of changing employee identity.Findings – Employees reacted in different ways to the empowerment initiative, with some resisting attempts to shape their identity and others actively engaging in projects to bring their unruly self into line with the ideal self to which they were encouraged to aspire.Originality/value – The challe...
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TL;DR: A systemwide culture survey is used for front-line assessments' of safety and teamwork across all clinical areas and to discover best practices and track progress in improving performance.
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TL;DR: A culture which promotes planning as a positive tool: a culture which grasps the opportunities to improve the experience of plan... as discussed by the authors argues that too often the culture of planning is reactive and defensive.
Abstract: Too often the culture of planning is reactive and defensive. We want a culture which promotes planning as a positive tool: a culture which grasps the opportunities to improve the experience of plan...
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TL;DR: This paper proposed a new perspective that takes intra-national regional culture as the unit of analysis, combining this perspective with acculturation theory and the concepts of cultural strength and embeddedness, and developed a conceptual model to analyze dynamic interaction between intranational regional cultures and organizational cultures and propositions on how such interactions affect firm performance.
45 citations