Background Documents & Information Sources

Learning Group Members are encouraged to submit documents for inclusion.  If anyone is truly research motivated they could review the following information and prepare synopses of them.

Documents for review (add your items here):

• The Pygmalion Effect: The Power of the Supervisor's Expectations  http://humanresources.about.com/od/managementtips/a/mgmtsecret.htm?nl=1
• The Galatea Effect:The Power of Self-expectations  http://humanresources.about.com/od/managementtips/a/mgmtsecret_2.htm
• DO the right thing - Do the right thing.pdf
• The Social Dimension of Organizations: Recent Experiences with Great Places to Work Assessment Practices - Great Places to Work.pdf
• Defining and Enforcing Your Company's Culture May Be Your Most Important Job - Defining and Enforcing.pdf
• Leaders Profit by Strengthening Corporate Culture - Leaders Profit.pdf
• Flexibility to the Fullest - Flexibility.pdf
• Investigating the Portrayal of Organizational Culture in Internet Recruitment: Can Applicants Gain a Sense of Person-Organization Fit Through a Recruitment Website? -  Organizational Culture in Internet Recruitment.pdf
• Culture & Development -  Culture & Development.pdf
• Oganizational Culture in the Public Sector -  Organizational Culture in the Public Sector.pdf
• What is Culture? -  What is Culture&.pdf
• Culture and development -  Culture and Development.pdf
• What is Culture? -  What is Culture.pdf
• Organizational Culture & Leadership -  Organizational Culture & Leadership.mht
• Organizational Culture: What is it? -  Organizational Culture - What is it.doc
•  Seven Ways to Create a Learning Culture.doc

If you found a helpful website related to defining or refining an organizational culture, please list it here:

• Bridging Cultural Divides in the Workplace - http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/career/?p=389&tag=nl.e101
• Systematically Describing An Organization's Culture: A Case Study Of The Pima County Arizona, Pretrial  Services Agency - http://www.pamij.com/vance.html
• The Cultural Web Aligning Your Organization's Culture with Strategy - http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newSTR_90.htm
• How to Change Your Culture: Organizational Culture Change - http://humanresources.about.com/od/organizationalculture/a/culture_change.htm
• How to Understand Your Current Culture - http://humanresources.about.com/od/organizationalculture/a/culture_create.htm
• Organizational Culture & Leadership - http://www.tnellen.com/ted/tc/schein.html (notes compiled by T. Nellen about Edgar H. Schein's concepts on organizational culture)
• Humor and Fun in the Workplace - http://www.workplaceissues.com/arhumor.htm
• How to Change Your Culture: Organizational Culture Change - http://humanresources.about.com/od/organizationalculture/a/culture_change.htm
• The importance of understanding organizational Culture - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FWE/is_6_9/ai_n13822461
• Organizational Culture - http://www.toolpack.com/culture.html

Project Documents

The AI Culture Interview Protocols (02/10/09 version) are available for your use in conducting your interviews.  Please be prepared to discuss your interview results at our upcoming meeting on March 10 (1pm to 4pm in the Chaffey Conference Room).

Project Docuements:

• AI Culture Intvw Protocols 2-10-09.doc