by James O. Rodgers | Jun 24, 2022 | Organizational Culture
Change efforts include mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, rightsizing, or any of the many strategic focus initiatives like six-sigma, innovation, performance enhancement, and learning organization. If you accept the fact that diversity management also involves...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Organizational Culture
I’m also a major proponent of using management as a catalyst for producing organizational success. When the remaining questions, as we move deeper into the 21st-century is, what problem was management. as we know it, designed to solve? Gary Hamel suggests that...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Organizational Culture
I have long contended that innovation lies at the intersection of creativity and diversity. My argument is that to get real innovation in an organization requires a well managed, diverse team of people, with the freedom to try new ideas and develop new ways of doing...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Organizational Culture
Even before the notion of “the global marketplace” became a buzzword, banking organizations of all varieties understood and recognized the role of culture and diversity in doing business overseas. But culture isn’t just an international phenomenon, nor is it one...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Organizational Culture
Many companies have used shared learning experiences in the past, but it’s not as popular as it used to be. I think this is a mistake. Shared learning experiences can help create a common awareness of what is important between workers while at the same time helping to...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Organizational Culture
Much of the work of performing culture audits as a part of diversity work misses the point. It is clear that an unexamined culture will likely continue to create an environment that will tolerate rather than appreciate and manage diversity. But to conduct culture...
