Understanding Your IT Project Organization's Character: Exploring the Differences between the Cultures of an IT Project and its Base Organization
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Participants from 125 different Norwegian projects (including forty-one IT projects) have described the organizational cultures of both their most recent project and the base organization they work for. Their descriptions are based on a typology that distinguishes between power, role, task and person cultures, as outlined in the classic work of Harrison in his HBR article from 1972 and later developed further by Handy. The results of this study indicate that projects are more task cultureoriented than their base organizations, with IT projects being only slightly closer to the task culture than other projects. Further, for a given project to move closer to the task culture at hand, a focus on increased elimination of hierarchical elements of the project is required.
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