Organizational Culture Management Challenges

Organizational Culture 1 Organizational Culture and Knowledge Management Efforts

An organization’s culture is one of its most important attributes. Organizational culture defines the shared values and expectations it members. It can affect the behavior of the organization’s members in positive or negative ways. In addition, having certain characteristics in an organizational culture can contribute to the success or failure of initiatives of many kinds. An organization’s kno...

Organizational Mindfulness: Safety Culture and Change Management

Does Organizational Culture Impact Patient Safety Management?

Objective: Since organizational culture could act as a tool to socialize employee value, this study explores the relationship between organizational culture and patient safety management, with the purpose of identifying which culture could benefit from the implementation of patient safety. Method: Based on the theory of Competing Values Approach, this study adopted four categories of organizati...

Sustained Knowledge Management by Organizational Culture

Preserving and fostering knowledge is the vital interest of a network-like virtual organization. The decentralized and geographically distributed organizational structure inhibits knowledge flow. The particular conditions of knowledge management in virtual organizations are discussed by the example of an empirical study we carried out in a service company. We analyze how technical and organizat...

Overcoming organizational challenges to secure knowledge management

Incident management systems have the potential to improve security dramatically but often experience problems stemming from organizational, interpersonal and social constraints that limit their effectiveness. These limits may cause underreporting of incidents, leading to erroneous perceptions of the actual safety and security situation of the organization. The true security situation may be bet...