Skip to main content
Disciplines
Automotive Business IT + Informatics Construction + Real Estate Electrical Engineering + Electronics Energy + Sustainability Insurance + Risk Finance + Banking Management + Leadership Marketing + Sales Mechanical Engineering + Materials
Events
DE
EN
Books
Journals
Topic Page
Marketing
Start single access now
Access for companies
EXTENDED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Published in:
A Symbiotic Relationship: HR and Organizational Culture Read chapter Read first chapter

2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

The Power to Change a Social System

Authors : Deane L. Harder, Kim O. Tokarski

Published in: Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Log in

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config
loading …

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is a short introduction to changing corporate culture from an evolutionary and systems thinking point of view. It highlights that some of the common observations in corporate culture are the outcome of adaptations of the human brain to complexity in social situations. Features like diversity and leadership play important roles in the ability to adjust a social system in response to internal or external pressures, however, these features are difficult to manage as typical human behavior in groups tends to favor other characteristics; there seems to be a bias against them. There are ways and means to accommodate for these behavioral preferences, but many of those options are indirect and long term and therefore need reflection, understanding, and a strategic perspective to implement.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 102.000 Bücher
  • über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
  • Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 390 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe




 

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Versicherung + Risiko




Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now
previous chapter Teachable Moments in Human Resource Management: National Culture, Organizational Culture, and Intersectionality
next chapter Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Appendix
Available only for authorised users
Literature
1.
Zahra, S. A., Ireland, R. D., & Hitt, M. A. (2000). International expansion by new venture firms: International diversity, mode of market entry, technological learning, and performance. The Academy of Management Journal, 43, 925–950.
2.
Bahrami, H. (1992). The emerging flexible organization: Perspectives from silicon valley. California Management Review SAGE Publications, 34, 33–52.CrossRef
3.
Andriopoulos, C., & Lewis, M. W. (2010). Managing innovation paradoxes: Ambidexterity lessons from leading product design companies. Long Range Plann: Elsevier.
4.
Wagner, J. A. III & Hollenbeck, J. R. (2014). Organizational behavior: Securing competitive advantage. Routledge.
5.
Hechanova, R. M., & Cementina-Olpoc, R. (2013). Transformational leadership, change management, and commitment to change: A comparison of academic and business organizations. Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 22, 11–19 (Springer Singapore).
6.
Belias, D., & Koustelios, A. (2014). The impact of leadership and change management strategy on organizational culture. European Scientific Journal, 10.
7.
Goodwin, M. (2016). Change management and leadership. In C. Baroncelli & N. Ballerio (Eds.), WCOM (World Class Operations Management) (pp. 185–196). Springer International Publishing.
8.
Foster, C., & Harris, L. (2005). Easy to say, difficult to do: Diversity management in retail. Human Resource Management Journal, 15, 4–17 (Blackwell Publishing Ltd).
9.
Ready, D. A., & Conger, J. A. (2003) Why leadership-development efforts fail. MIT Sloan Management Review, 44, 83 (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
10.
Davidson, M. N. (2011). The end of diversity as we know it: Why diversity efforts fail and how leveraging difference can succeed. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
11.
Zipf, G. K. (2016). Human behavior and the principle of least effort: An introduction to human ecology. Ravenio Books.
12.
Chase-Dunn, C., & Hall, T. D. (2016). The historical evolution of world-systems. In G. Preyer (Ed.), Strukturelle Evolution und das Weltsystem (pp. 281–298). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
13.
14.
Gusnard, D. A., Raichle, M. E., & Raichle, M. E. (2001). Searching for a baseline: Functional imaging and the resting human brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2, 685–694 (nature.com).
15.
Dunbar, R. (2010). How many friends does one person need?: Dunbar’s number and other evolutionary quirks. London: Faber & Faber.
16.
Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. Macmillan.
17.
Watzlawick, P., Beavin, J. H., & Jackson, D. D. (1967). Pragmatics of human communication (p. 51). New York: New York W. W. Norton.
18.
Kühl, S. (2015). Die blinden Flecken der Theorie U von Otto Scharmer. Systeme, 29, 190–202.
19.
Von Bertalanffy, L. (1968). General system theory. New York, 41973, 40.
20.
Maturana, H. R., & Varela, F. J. (1991). Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living. Springer Science & Business Media.
21.
Luhmann, N. (1995). Social systems. Stanford University Press.
22.
Simon, F. B. (2007). Einführung in Systemtheorie und Konstruktivismus. Carl-Auer-Systeme Verlag.
23.
Newcomb, T. M., Others. (1960). Varieties of interpersonal attraction. Group Dynamics (2nd ed.). Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson.
24.
Ebbesen, E. B., Kjos, G. L., & Konečni, V. J. (1976). Spatial ecology: Its effects on the choice of friends and enemies. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 12, 505–518.CrossRef
25.
Preciado, P., Snijders, T. A. B., Burk, W. J., Stattin, H., & Kerr, M. (2012). Does proximity matter? Distance dependence of adolescent friendships. Social Networks, 34, 18–31.
26.
Korzybski, A. (1958). Science and sanity: An introduction to non-aristotelian systems and general semantics. Institute of GS.
27.
Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an ecology of mind: Collected essays in anthropology, psychiatry, evolution, and epistemology. University of Chicago Press.
28.
Slater, R. (1998). Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: management insights and leadership secrets of the legendary CEO. McGraw Hill Professional.
29.
Doppler, K., & Lauterburg, C. (2008). Change Management: Den Unternehmenswandel gestalten. Campus Verlag.
30.
Damaske, S., Zawadzki, M. J., & Smyth, J. M. (2016). Stress at work: Differential experiences of high versus low SES workers. Social Science and Medicine, 156, 125–133.CrossRef
31.
Cialdini, R. B., Wosinska, W., Barrett, D. W., Butner, J., & Gornik-Durose, M. (1999). Compliance with a request in two cultures: The differential influence of social proof and commitment/consistency on collectivists and individualists. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25: 1242–1253 (Sage Publications).
32.
Cialdini, R. B., & Garde, N. (1987). Influence. A. Michel.
33.
Bernstein, E., Bunch, J., Canner, N., & Lee, M. (2016). Beyond the holacracy hype. Harvard Business Review, 94, 38–49 (Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation 300 North Beacon Street, Watertown, MA, 02472, USA).
34.
Ulrich, D., Kerr, S., & Ashkenas, R. (2002). The GE work-out: How to implement GE’s revolutionary method for busting bureaucracy and attacking organizational proble. McGraw Hill Professional.
35.
Laloux, F. (2014). Reinventing organizations. USA: Nelson Parker.
36.
Warner, B. W. (2010). Organization change: Theory and practice. Sage.
37.
Flik, H. (1990). The concept … organizing around opportunity within the GORE culture. In H. Simon (Ed.), Herausforderung Unternehmenskultur (pp. 91–129). Stuttgart: Schäffer Verlag.
Metadata
Title
The Power to Change a Social System
Authors
Deane L. Harder
Kim O. Tokarski
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-66862-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-66864-2

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66864-2_3