1. MODULE 10 – ORGANISATION CULTURE
Stage 2 – Leadership for Strategy

2. Module Overview Learning Objectives Learning Outcomes
To learn how good leadership can change the organisation culture to deliver better performance.
Learning Outcomes
Participants understand the nature of organisation culture and the role it plays in organization performance.
Participants learn how the leadership might intervene to shape it in a way that makes it supportive of high standards of performance.
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Module 10 – Organisation Culture

3. Module Structure Introduction
Group Exercise 1 - Reading the Organization Culture
Group Exercise 2 - Dimensions of an Organisational Culture
Group Exercise 3 - Improving an Organisation’s Culture
Homework
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Module 10 – Organisation Culture

4. Working Definitions Organisation Culture
The set of shared values and norms that characterise a particular organisation. .
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Module 10 – Organisation Culture

5. EXERCISES

6. Group Exercise 1 - Reading the Organization Culture
In groups of 2/3 people identify how one organisation has its culture shaped.
Stage 1
Module 2 – Understanding Leadership

7. Group Exercise 2 - Dimensions of an Organisational Culture
In groups of 2/3 people rank, on a sliding scale, the various dimensions that contribute to organisational culture.
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Module 10 – Organisation Culture

8. Group Exercise 3 - Improving an Organisation’s Culture
Building on from exercise 2, each group should identify 1-2 cultural obstacles to good performance in the selected organisation and complete the table on the causes and consequences of the obstacle and the action to be taken to overcome it.
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Module 10 – Organisation Culture

9. Exercise 4
Homework
Each participant can use the checklist on ‘Open Organisation Culture’ below to assess the culture of his/her own organisation.
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Module 10 – Organisation Culture