Organizational Culture: A Leadership & Social Psychology Toolkit
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Overview
Do you want to better understand the components of a successful 21st Century organization? Have you often thought that workplaces have their own unique “personality”? Have you ever wondered why some organizations fail while seemingly similar organizations succeed? Have you often wondered whether or not you are a good “fit” for your job/team/organization? No matter how big or small, the key to personal and collective success in any organization — corporate, government, military, education, healthcare, nonprofit, religious — is a thorough understanding of organizational culture. When you understand how and why an organization behaves the way it does, you can begin to unlock the keys to maximizing strengths and mitigating weaknesses, at the individual and leadership level. This highly interactive workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Jeni McRay and Dr. Whitney Whitaker, experts in leadership studies and social psychology, respectively. This will be a high-energy, impactful workshop designed to deliver highly practical advice that you can begin to implement immediately, facilitated by two of FHSU’s most enthusiastic and dynamic professors.
Learning Objectives
- Understand organizational culture through a 4 dimensional diversity wheel and a 4 dimensional series of assumptions model;
- Explore personality styles in an organizational context as well as why and how various companies utilize personality testing (and whether or not it is desirable to do so.)
- Discover how underlying assumptions, groupthink, employee motivation, workplace expectations, generational differences, and core values all intersect to form organizational cultures.
- Analyze your organizational culture, and how well you fit into it, through applying education/training, leadership studies, and social psychology research; self- and workplace-assessments; and interactive activities using Kotter’s Change Model, Schein’s 5 Mechanisms, Big Five and MBTI personality profiles, and United Methodist Church case studies.
- Create an individual action plan to build a new or adapt an existing organizational culture in your workplace in an informed and intentional way.