Organization Culture: Book Exercise Writing Assignment

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Please complete the 5 questions. This could be any organization (profit or non for profit) that you are familiar with.
1. What words would you use to describe the positive and negative dimensions of your organization’s culture, or an organization with which you are familiar? 2. How can you explain the negative aspects of that organizational culture? Why have those dimensions developed in that way? What factors are causing, supporting, or reinforcing those dimensions?3. What are the consequences of the negative dimensions of this organizational cul- ture? In what ways are they harmful to the organization, its employees, suppliers, and customers? 4. What actions can you take to change the dysfunctional aspects of the culture? The 7-S framework (chapter 4) is a good place to start. What changes need to be made to the “hard” factors: strategy, structure, systems? What changes need to be made to the “soft” factors: style, staff, skills, shared values? How does senior leadership behavior have to change? 5. What would those actions cost?