Culture and Innovation in Organisations

Assignment Requirements

 

Assessment is by one assignment, a critical essay of 6000 words (100%) which integrates theory and practice.

The assignment must include a clear structure with abstract, bibliography, appendices, and diagrammatic representation where appropriate. You must make appropriate use of journal articles, research papers and texts.

The assignment should contain:
Culture and Innovation in Organisations
1. A critical review of theories of the nature of organisational culture, including how it may impact on innovation, and how it may be affected by the leaders of an organisation
2. An examination of how culture influences behaviours related to innovation and change in an organisation of your choice
3. A recommendation as to strategies and actions that could be implemented (by you or by the organisation’s leaders) to enhance or create an appropriate culture

Pedagogical aim and expectations:
To show the strengths and weaknesses of both your understanding so that the instructor can give feedback to assist you in the overall paper. This assignment will have a “mock” grade, as a means of letting you know how you are getting on.

Assessment is by one assignment, a critical essay of 6000 words (100%) which integrates theory and practice.

The assignment must include a clear structure with abstract, bibliography, appendices, and diagrammatic representation where appropriate. You must make appropriate use of journal articles, research papers and texts.

The assignment should contain:

1. A critical review of theories of the nature of organisational culture, including how it may impact on innovation, and how it may be affected by the leaders of an organisation
2. An examination of how culture influences behaviours related to innovation and change in an organisation of your choice
3. A recommendation as to strategies and actions that could be implemented (by you or by the organisation’s leaders) to enhance or create an appropriate culture

Pedagogical aim and expectations:
To show the strengths and weaknesses of both your understanding so that the instructor can give feedback to assist you in the overall paper. This assignment will have a “mock” grade, as a means of letting you know how you are getting on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

1 Abstract

 

2 A critical review of theories of the nature of organizational culture, including how it may impact on innovation, and how it may be affected by the leaders of an organization

2.1 Introduction to organizational culture

2.1.1 Sub-cultures

2.1.2 Models to investigate organizational culture

2.1.3 Different Tools

2.2 Organizational Culture and Innovation

2.2.1 Innovation and change

2.3 Organizational Culture and Organizational Politics

2.3.1 Organizational Politics

2.3.2 Organizational behavior, culture and politics

2.4 Shaping and Changing Culture

 

3 An examination of how culture influences behaviors related to innovation and change in an organization of your choice

3.1 Overview of organization

3.2 Ethics and Culture

 

4 A recommendation as to strategies and actions that could be implemented (by you or by the organization’s leaders) to enhance or create an appropriate culture

4.1 Current characteristics of the organizations culture

4.2 Implement better capacity to innovate and change

4.2.1 Investigate cultural differences of nurses

4.2.2 Create self-managing cross cultural teams

4.2.3 Implement a different leadership styles

4.3 Implement an overall recognizable Organizational Culture

 

5 Conclusion

 

6 Bibliography

 

 

 

 

Culture and Innovation in Organisations

AIMS

The aim of this module is to review the cultural context of the organisation and its impact on leadership. The politics of organisations and of people working within organisations will be explored in relation to beliefs, values and norms within groups, social systems, personal preferences, styles and behaviour.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By completing this module, you will be able to:
1. Reflect critically upon organisational culture and the impact on innovation and change.
2. Identify and reflect upon significant values, beliefs and norms operating within organisations
3. Analyse overt and covert influences at work in organisations
4. Evaluate leadership styles which work positively with the complexity of organisational culture and politics
5. Assess the key organisational values on the process of innovation and change

INDICATIVE CONTENT

1. Organisational culture: shared beliefs, values, norms behaviours
2. Group processes
3. Organisational politics
4. Shadow side influences in organisations
5. Leadership styles and culture

Reading resources

In support of this module, a pack of recommended reading will be made available through Moodle, which you can download as pdf files, as well as the full reading list, below.

As you are studying at Master’s level, you are also expected to explore and discover reading independently. Typically it is a good idea to start with a broad text that summarises key issues, then widen your research to include academic and practitioner sources.

*Items in the list marked with an asterisk are available as e-books through the University library. Your ability to access these will depend on the download speed available to you – please check on this early in the module.

# Where items in the list are marked with a hashmark, a chapter of the book is available in the Moodle site, to download as a pdf. (See below under Resources for the steps on how to log into Moodle to download these.)

Core Reading

If you were to buy one book to support your work on this module, we would recommend:

*EH Schein 2010/2004 Organisational Culture and Leadership Jossey Bass

This is available as an e-book through the University library, so check your ability to access it early in the module.

The text we recommended for purchase for the Strategic Thinking and Strategic Leadership module also has some useful ideas about organisational culture:

Gerry Johnson, Richard Whittington and Kevan Scholes 2011 Exploring Strategy: Text and Cases, Pearson Education Ltd: Harlow

or the earlier edition:

*G Johnson, K Scholes and R Whittington 2008 Exploring Corporate Strategy, 8th ed Prentice Hall

Recommended Reading

#Mats Alvesson and Stefan Sveningsson 2008 Changing Organizational Culture, Routledge: London

#Ian Brooks 2009 Organisational Behaviour FT/Prentice Hall: Harlow

#K Cameron and RE Quinn 2006 Diagnosing and Changing Organisational Culture Jossey Bass

#S Cartwright, CL Cooper, PC Earley, et al, (eds). The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate, Wiley: Chichester (# scanned chapter by Ulijn available in Moodle)

Jean Hartley and Layla Branicki 2006 Managing with political awareness, Chartered Management Institute and Warwick University (available to download from www.managers.org.uk)

#G Hofstede 2001 Culture’s Consequences, Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA

*G Hofstede, GJ Hofstede and M Minkov 2010 Cultures and Organizations McGraw Hill: New York

*Linda Holbeche 2006 Understanding change: theory, implementation and success Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann

# Robert House, PJ Hanges, M Javidan, PW Dorfman and V Gupta (eds) 2004 Culture, leadership, and organizations : the GLOBE study of 62 societies, Sage: London (# scanned chapter by Javidan available on Moodle)

#Richard D Lewis 2006 When Cultures Collide Nicholas Brealey

#Jeffrey B K Liker and Michael Hoseus 2008 Toyota Culture: the Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way, McGraw Hill: New York

#G Morgan 2006 Images of Organization Sage: London

*Laurie Mullins 2010 Management and Organisational Behaviour FT/Prentice Hall

*F Trompenaars 2010 Servant-leadership across cultures: harnessing the strength of the world’s most powerful management philosophy McGraw-Hill

#Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams 2003 Business Across Cultures, Capstone: Chichester

Journals

A number of journals contain useful information for this module, including Leadership and Organization Development Journal, Organizational Dynamics, the British Journal of Management, the Journal of Management. Many of these are available electronically through the library.

 

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