Corporate Culture
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Corporate Culture Analysis
by Cindy Buell
Janet Tyler anxiously awaits the outcome of her latest surgery. Janet, who's abnormal face has made her an outcast, has had her eleventh hospital visit - the maximum allowed by the State. If it didn't succeed, she will be sent to live in a village where others of her kind are segregated. As her bandages are removed, she is revealed to be very beautiful. The doctor draws back in horror. As the lights come on we see the others, their faces are misshapen and deformed. As Janet runs from her room crying, she runs into another of her kind, a handsome man named Walter Smith. He is in charge of an outcast village, and he assures her that she will eventually feel she belongs. He tells her to remember the old saying: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
The Eye of the Beholder, Twilight Zone Episode 42, Nov 11, 1960
Like Janet Tyler, people who find themselves in organizations which are not aligned with their own personal beliefs and value systems can feel like outcasts. Not only will they suffer personally, but their performance will suffer, and by extension the success of the organization is jeopardized. “Corporate culture has been clearly established as a major driver of organizational performance and results, and of individual performance in organizations.” (Lineberry & Carleton, page 336)
If we believe that understanding and assessing an organization’s culture can mean the difference between success and failure, then it is important to consider the idea of a corporate culture audit. This paper will explore the culture audit as a potential intervention, and look at some case studies in which a corporate culture audit have been used, or ...