About.com-How to Change Your Organizational Culture

By Susan M. Heathfield, About.com Guide

Changing your organizational culture is the toughest task you will ever take on. Your organizational culture was formed over years of interaction between the participants in the organization. Changing the accepted organizational culture1 can feel like rolling rocks uphill.
Organizational cultures form for a reason. Perhaps the current organizational culture matches the style and comfort zone of the company founder. Culture frequently echoes the prevailing management style. Since managers tend to hire people just like themselves, the established organizational culture is reinforced by new hires.

Organizational culture grows over time. People are comfortable with the current organizational culture. For people to consider culture change, usually a significant event must occur. An event that rocks their world such as flirting with bankruptcy, a significant loss of sales and customers, or losing a million dollars, might get people's attention.

Read the entire article: http://humanresources.about.com/od/organizationalculture/a/culture_change.htm?nl=1

Corporate Culture-A Straightforward Approach

Very nice white paper in simple and readable format about corporate culuture:

http://www.trainingindustry.com/media/2448202/meno-culture%20the%20forgotten%20element%20of%20business.pdf

How to Build a Winning Organizational Culture

By Dr. Michael J. O’Connor
Founder, The Center For Managing By Values

In my work with organizations of all sizes, types, and industries I have discovered 11 Best Practices across organizations to date. This article identifies these practices and describes each based on one or more actual client cases. These practices are consistent with the model and process for building and sustaining Winning Cultures that are also further discussed in the book I co‐authored with Dr. Ken Blanchard entitled Managing By Values: Becoming A Fortunate 500 Organization and the services we continue to provide for organizations directly through certified external and internal consultants. This book has been printed in 23 different languages around the world and sold more than 250,000 copies to date as a best seller.

Read the rest of the article: http://www.trainingindustry.com/media/1935379/mbv%2011%20best%20practices%20stories%20-%20how%20to%20build%20a%20winning%20organization%20-%20final.pdf

Workplace Wonders-Great Article from the Las Vegas Review Journal

Two local businesses earned spots on a list of the nation's 50 best small to midsize employers, and their inclusion on the roster holds lessons for other companies angling to boost employee morale in tough economic times.

The Society for Human Resource Management's Best Small and Medium Companies to Work for in America includes Las Vegas heavyweights in advertising and finance. Ad agency R&R Partners ranked No. 24 among small employers with 50 to 250 workers, and Nevada Federal Credit Union came in at No. 21 among medium-size companies with 251 to 999 employees.

To develop the rankings, the society evaluated 321 businesses in credibility, respect, fairness, pride and camaraderie. Two-thirds of each entrant's score came from the results of a 57-question employee survey assessing trust between workers and businesses.

Read the rest of the article from the Las Vegas Review Journal http://www.lvrj.com/business/22706849.html