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Title	Type	Author	Resource Type	Year	Size
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
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
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
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
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
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
Organizational Culture and Innovation: Understanding the Link Findings from this study suggest that organizations with higher culture scores rank higher on new product development and are expected to grow more in the future than those with low culture scores.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Research Note	2008	796.46 KB
Change Over Time: New Hampshire Electric Cooperative This case study reports New Hampshire Electric Cooperative’s efforts to survive in the future, by focusing their attention on defining strategy and culture.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2008	914.89 KB
JetBlue Airways & Organizational Development: Partners for Change The Systems Operations Center (SOC) is the heart of JetBlue and in order for the airline to keep its competitive edge in the ever-changing market, it was time for the Organizational Development team and the SOC to team up.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2007	849.39 KB
Reynolds American: A Merger Success Story A merger of two US ‘tobacco titans,’ R. J. Reynolds and Brown & Williamson was causing the stress level to go through the roof. Reynolds turned to Denison for help to successfully maneuver the merger.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2007	741.47 KB
NASA: Shifting Gears (and Culture) in Space Amidst everything going on in the Universe currently, why is culture top of mind at NASA?	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Case Study	2009	276.46 KB
Executive Coaching: Does leader behavior change with feedback and coaching? What impact does coaching have on an individual’s performance? This study examines change over time during a new manager training program at DLA.	.pdf	Ryan Smerek, Karen Luce, Paula Kluczynski, & Daniel R. Denison	Business Article	2009	1.02 MB
The Consistency Trait: Can Organizations Have Too Much of a Good Thing? When is consistency good and when is it bad? This research note investigates the effects that consistency has in organizations’ culture. The effects of consistency are tested with a sample of 137 publicly traded organizations.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Research Note	2009	328.57 KB
Executive Coaching: Does Leader Behavior Change with Feedback and Coaching? We examined 237 emerging leaders at the Defense Logistics Agency to determine whether structured coaching sessions with multisource feedback are a successful combination. Results showed that managers made the biggest change from the Boss perspective.	.pdf	Denison Consulting	Denison Research Note	2009	1.33 MB

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