The management of organisations is not restricted to the problems of managing structures, procedures and processes, people and groups. There is an additional complication in that any organisation can be seen to have a prevailing culture or cultures. However, the detection of an organisational culture is not easy and the reality is that such cultures are indicated by, or reflected in, certain features of an organisations actions or activities.
Most large organisations will have a variety of cultures. The likelihood is that this variety is patterned by each major department having its own prevailing culture. This diversity of culture brings further problems for the management of an organisation in that such diversity must not result in organisational disharmony. Organisations can adopt a number of strategies to try to harmonise the different cultures prevailing in their different departments.
This workshop was developed as a means of contributing to change in leadership focus and empowering managers to look at people issues.