Organizational Development

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Organizational Culture

Organizational culture encompasses values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of a business. It is the pattern of such collective behaviors and assumptions that are taught to new organizational members as a way of perceiving and, even thinking and feeling. Organizational culture therefore defines the proper way to behave within the organization, ultimately shaping employee perceptions, behaviors and understanding. Thus organizational culture affects the way people and groups interact with each other, with clients, and with stakeholders. In addition, organizational culture may affect how much employees identify with an organization.

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Organizational Development

Workspaces That Move People

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Ben Waber, Greg Lindsay, Jennifer Magnolfi

Oct 01, 2014 • 18 min read

Today’s offices don’t encourage us to mingle - but that’s what creativity and productivity demand.

Few companies measure whether the design of their workspaces helps or hurts performance, but they should. The authors have collected data that capture individuals’ interactions, communications, and location information. They’ve learned that face-to-face interactions are by far the most important activity in an office; creating chance encounters between knowledge workers, both inside and outside the organization, improves performance.

Organizational Development

Embracing Agile

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Darrel Rigby, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Jeff Sutherland

May 01, 2016 • 20 min read

How to master the process that’s transforming management

The authors identify six crucial elements for the success of agile transformation efforts: 1) Understanding how agile really works; 2) Knowing when it is appropriate; 3) Starting small and letting passionate evangelists spread the word; 4) Enabling teams that have mastered the process to customize their practices; 5) Incorporate agile at the top; and 6) Remove corporate agile barriers. The article expands on each item, providing a practical guide for agile implementations.

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management seeks to achieve organizational objectives by making the best use of knowledge. It supports objectives such as improved performance, competitive advantage, innovation, the sharing of lessons learned, integration and continuous improvement of the organization. Often these efforts enable Organizational Learning by shifting the focus on the management of knowledge as a strategic asset and on encouraging the sharing of knowledge.

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(Probably) The Longest Running KM Experiment in the world

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Nick Milton, Tom Young

Apr 24, 2009 • 9 min read

Findings from running workshops over 10 years with 220 teams.

Knowledge Management is often met with resistance, and one of the early challenges is to convince managers that it results in real, tangible, measurable value for the business. The authors ran a KM workshop for over 10 years capturing statistics and share proof that KM works. Results show continuous innovation,
design evolution and performance improvement in every operational team - often reaching three to four-fold increase in a single workshop.

Organizational Development

Knowledge Management 101

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Ryan Brooks

Dec 30, 2019 • 8 min read

Learn what knowledge management (KM) is, what benefits it offers and what processes it involves.

Knowledge management is the discipline of capturing, storing, using, and sharing knowledge. It enables an organization to increase the value of its intellectual capital by leveraging its knowledge assets to achieve its goals. In this article Ryan Brooks shares a real-life KM project at a global enterprise, so you can understand why it is challenging and its key components, benefits and processes - so that you can maximize yours.

Employee Development

Deals with the overall arrangement of the organization and its functions, including both the long- and short-term identification and development of its human resources. It includes the process of enhancing the effectiveness of an organization and the well-being of its members through planned interventions, the set of systematic and planned activities designed by an organization to provide its members with the necessary skills to meet current and future job demands, coaching and training, succession planning, and other aspects of leadership and skills development. It also includes matters that focus on careers, communications, legal and regulatory issues, technology, metrics, and outsourcing in the organizational and employee development fields, as well as effective practices and global issues.

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Organizational Learning

An organization improves over time as it gains experience. From this experience, it is able to create knowledge. This knowledge is broad, covering any topic that could better an organization. Examples may include ways to increase production efficiency or to develop beneficial investor relations. Knowledge is created at four different units: individual, group, organizational, and inter organizational.

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Feedback Culture At Its Best

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Ryan Nystrom

Sep 02, 2020 • 44 min read

Refining the feedback culture at an organizational level by comparing the daily practices of GitHub and Facebook.

A look at how GitHub and Facebook create and improve a feedback culture, beyond the traditional performance reviews. Ryan Nystrom discusses the fine details of handling feedback culture both on an organizational and personal level. By comparing the two cultures, he identifies the essential elements of a big company's feedback culture, its benefits, and how to keep the feedback useful.

Workplace Design