MGIALLOURAKIS@COBILAN.MsState.Edu Wrote:
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| Hello. Can you help. I am interested in assessing
| characteristics of
| organizational culture and innovations and or technology
| developments.
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| Question: Are there any orgcult. scales that I can use.
| Please reply
| to me: mgiallourakis@cobilan.msstate.edu
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Although this will not necessarily help you determine which type of
organizational culture will be most willing to deal with innovation, I
recommend William Bridges, The Culture of Organizations, which describes
organizations by Meyers-Brigg type and allows one to get some insight into
how one's organization operates. From the types, you could consider
generalizing, with many caveats, as to what particular type or types is
more open and willing to move forward.
I also recommend as a by the way, Bridges other works on transition:
Transitions, which is at a very personal level but generalizable to any
kind of change, and Managing Transitions, which is the same themes but
directed clearly at helping organizations through a change. His general
thesis, to which I personally subscribe based on personal and
organizational experience, is that before there is a beginning there has
to be an end and that the end has to be properly recognized, honored,
grieved, and let go. Similar to Kubler-Ross and others on death and
others personal changes. It is not such a novel approach but it is well
done in these short books by Bridges..
Hope this helps.
Susan Kaplan
Budget Officer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
US Dept. of Commerce, Washington, DC
-- skaplan@OAserverA2.SSMC.NOAA.GOV