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Title	Type	Author	Resource Type	Year	Size
Assessing the Impact of Leader-Culture fit on Managerial Effectiveness Presentation for the Academy of Management (AOM 2011). Part of the program session for: Challenging the Positive View of P-O Fit within the ASA Model.	.pdf	Lindsey Kotrba, Gary Burns, & Ryan Smerek	Presentation	2011	730.30 KB
Organizational Culture: Can it be a Key Lever for Driving Organizational Change? This chapter conceptualizes organizational culture in a way that is useful for managers who are trying to create leverage during the change process.	.pdf	Daniel R. Denison	Publication	2000	7.22 MB
Sutter Connect: Cultivating Culture at the Start Many organizations turn to Denison Consulting when they recognize a problem. Sutter Connect stands out because they set out to cultivate and manage culture as a critical aspect of managing their business early on in the company’s life.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2009	1.24 MB
Change Readiness at Adventist Health System: How Organizational Culture Can Help Hospitals Implement CPOE Successfully Adventist Health System uses the Denison Organizational Culture Survey to assess the culture in their hospitals and make the changes necessary to implement CPOE successfully.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2010	609.58 KB
University of North Texas Health Science Center: Culture's Role in their Vision to Become a Top Ten Health Science Center Learn more about how UNTHSC is embracing the concepts of alignment, transparency, accountability and teamwork in their organization on their way to becoming a top ten health science center.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2010	758.28 KB
Avaya: Culture Transformation through Alignment Counterproductive behaviors carried over from Avaya's heritage created challenges for their future growth. In 2008, the organization undertook a culture transformation initiative to align their values, systems and processes to great results.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2011	1.10 MB
What Organizations Really Need: Solutions! - Webinar Bryan Adkins presentation for the "What Organizations Really Need: Solutions!" - Webinar - February 2010	.pdf	Bryan Adkins	Presentation	2010	3.18 MB
The Innovation Success of Teams: Building Knowledge and Trust Networks with Stakeholders Presentation for the Academy of Management (AOM 2011). Part of the program session for Enhanced Creativity: The Role of Teams and Knowledge Exchange in Innovation and Creativity.	.pdf	Levi Nieminen, Bettina Büchel, Dan Denison, & Heidi Armbruster-Domeyer	Presentation	2011	232.89 KB
Gender, Age and Industry: Exploring the Variables of Leadership The context in which a leader works has a big effect on how male and female leaders are perceived in the workplace. This Note explores the factors of Age and Industry and how they affect our perceptions.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Research Note	2011	532.60 KB
Diagnosing Organizational Cultures: Validating a Model and Method The paper presents a statistical validation of the Denison Organizational Culture survey using responses from 35,474 individuals in 160 organizations.	.pdf	Daniel R. Denison, Jay Janovics, Joana Young, Hee Jae Cho	Denison White/Working Paper	2006	389.41 KB
Making a Culture Connection: United Way of Washtenaw County Not only was United Way taking a hard hit from the economy, they were also experiencing organizational issues. To right their path, president Sandra Rupp, utilized the Denison Culture Survey as part of their strategic plan to increase effectiveness.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2008	603.52 KB
Henkel: Turning Results Into Action: Action Planning at Henkel How can attitude, conduct and actions be molded into a coherent, performance-enhancing corporate culture that delivers success to shareholders, stakeholders and customers?	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2007	753.62 KB
BCS Financial: Leading a Dynamic Cultural Evolution from Within BCS Financial employed five critical success factors to help them in their dynamic cultural evolution: Leadership, Core Values, Quality of Process, Actions Leading Plans and Organic Ownership	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2011	1.11 MB
Social Capital in Organizations: Understanding the Link to Firm Performance Conference Proceedings of the 2007 Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Conference. Presents the results of culture and performance among 102 Publicly-traded Companies.	.pdf	Ryan Smerek & Daniel R. Denison	Presentation	2007	108.01 KB
JetBlue Airways: Developing Leaders in a Fast-growing Start-up As JetBlue Airways grew, the strong leadership reflected by the founders was not being reflected by lower management. To address this issue, a leadership training program was developed, which included the Denison Leadership Development Survey.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2006	388.14 KB
Organizational Culture & Employee Engagement: What's the Difference? This Research Note explores connection between Organizational Culture and Employee Engagement showing that it’s the combination of both that is most critical to improving overall effectiveness of the organization and the people in it.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Research Note	2010	791.42 KB
Tsingtao: Culture Transformation in China's Oldest Beer Company Tsingtao Beer, China’s largest exporters of beer, recently had to move from a “larger then stronger” growth mentality to “a stronger then larger” strategy. How did they do it?	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2009	621.29 KB
Culture & Leadership Development: Aligning Strategy & People Using the Denison Leadership Development Survey and Organizational Culture Survey, this manufacturer was able to tie a successful development into their annual goal setting processes.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2009	430.96 KB
Hitachi: Communication Conquers Rumor Mill Hitachi Computer Products’ production facility was having problems with an employee rumor mill. Hitachi leaders developed a culture improvement plan which had as a main objective to replace the rumor mill with an effective communication program.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2006	788.20 KB
Top-Down & Bottom-Up: Leadership & Culture Transformation at SERS School Employees Retirement System of Ohio manages more than $9 Billion in assets for their members. See how they transformed their organization by balancing top-down and bottom-up management.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2009	1.36 MB

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