Culture Types

  Culture Types

“It is important to understand how an organization works, its culture and competencies, before you can effectively design a workspace where innovation happens.” 
– Dr. Jeff DeGraff, PhD Professor and Author

 Why does culture matter 
for your business?

Culture is a catalyst for engagement, collaboration and innovation. When culture and business goals align, employees are more engaged which yields higher returns. Beyond engaging employees for the sake of revenue, a healthy culture fosters collaboration and innovation. Hear University of Michigan Professor and Author, Jeff Degraff, discuss the power of aligning business goals and culture.

Culture is WHAT people do and HOW they do it.

The Personality of an Organization


Assumptions

How a company acts – company processes and actions that inform what employees think


Values

What a company believes – its mission, behaviors, and how it represents itself


Artifacts

What a company represents – products or services produced, publications, workplace



Which Culture is The Right Culture?

 Context: After reviewing various studies, faculty from the University of Michigan created the competing values framework which highlighted four types of organizational culture. The four categories were: compete, collaborate, control and create. It's important to recognize the difference between each culture profile because organizations always have a dominant culture and may also contain many different subcultures. By understanding and accepting various cultures organizations can harness the differences for success.
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