Chapter 16: Organizational Culture

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Positive Organizational Culture

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Emphasizes building on employee strengths, rewarding more than punishing, and emphasizing individual vitality growth.

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Building Employee Strengths

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Organizational behavior practice that emphasizes showing workers how they can capitalize on their strengths.

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Rewarding More Than Punishing

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Focus on intrinsic rewards such as praise by “catching employees doing the right thing” and articulating praise even if employees don’t ask for it.

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Emphasizing Vitality and Growth

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A positive culture recognizes the difference between a job and a career and supports not only what the employee does to contribute to organizational effectiveness but also what the organization can do to make the employee more effective.

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Limits of Positive Culture

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Promoting a social orthodoxy of possessiveness focuses on a particular constellation of desirable states and traits, but in so doing can stigmatize those who fail to fit the template.

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Limits of Positive Culture

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There may be benefits to establishing a positive culture, but an organization also needs to be careful to be objective and not pursue it past the point of effectiveness.