Leadership Skills | Understanding and Changing Organizational Culture
Objectives:
- To introduce students to concepts of organizational culture including the primary and secondary mechanisms by which organizational culture is created, circulated, upheld and/or changed.
- To help students understand the role that organizational culture has in how work is accomplished within organizations.
- To prompt students to think about how they might use elements of organizational culture to assess an organization and make sense of whether that culture will be one that is potentially supportive or one that is potentially dysfunctional and/or destructive.
- To prompt students to think about what it takes to change an organization's culture and what role they can play in that change.
Module Overview:
Understanding how organizational culture is created and sustained offers a valuable toolkit for us as we think about the communities in which we do our work. Organizations with a strong culture of supporting diversity and inclusion, valuing ethical leadership and followership are workplaces where everyone, from editor to beat reporter, can do their best work.
