Diversity Management: An Organisational Culture Audit To Determine Individual Differences

The Management of Organisational Culture

Culture is a term that is used regularly in workplace discussions. It is taken for granted that we understand what it means. The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss some of the significant issues relating to the management of an organisation’s culture. As organisational cultures are born within the context of broader cultural contexts such as national or ethic groupings, the paper ...

Knowledge Management and Organisational Culture

This paper explores the relationship between organisational knowledge, organisational culture, and Process Based Systems (PBS), in the U.K. National Health Service (NHS). Links between PBS and organisational culture have been observed before(Perry, 2003); the contribution made by PBS to organisational knowledge has also been suggested (Perry, 2004). However, links between organisational knowled...

Culture as an individual process: Deficits of national cultural theories in management of cultural diversity

An Adaptive Approach to Organisational Knowledge Management

This paper presents a case for an adaptive view of organisational knowledge and suggestions for its computational implementation. Organisations and their environments are dynamic and the knowledge created and required by them is subject to rapid change. The creation, dissemination and utilisation of knowledge may be analysed using the principles of complex adaptive systems (CAS). It is suggeste...

A Comparative Case Study of Indonesian and UK Organisational Culture Differences in IS Project Management

Information Systems (IS) Project Management (PM) is fundamental to the modern, constantly changing and upgrading business world and is impacted by culture on many levels. This research shows the extent to which organisational culture in international IS projects is impacted by culture found on a national level. Current data contributing to IS PM knowledge is provided by investigating two Inform...