Organisational Culture

Aims of the course

- Explain the theoretical concepts of organizational culture.
- Explain the characteristics of organizational culture, its importance in organization theory and its influence on success of an organization.
- Introduce practical approaches to recognizing and changing organizational culture on the basis of several case studies and recognize most common problems with implementation.
- Learn to use theory on a case study of selected organization.

Course syllabus

1. Defining organizational culture
2. Influence of organizational culture on organizational success
3. Organizational culture counterparts
4. Organizational culture and national culture
5. Creating organizational culture
6. Types of organizational culture
7. Analyzing, evaluating and changing organizational culture
8. Evaluating organizational culture
9. Changing organizational culture
10. Benchmarking organizational cultures in different countries

Course director(s)