Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework

The Third Edition of this key resource provides a means of understanding and changing organizational culture in order to make organizations more effective. It provides validated instruments for diagnosing organizational culture and management competency; a theoretical framework (competing values) for understanding organizational culture; and a systematic strategy and methodology for changing organizational culture and personal behavior. New edition includes online versions of the MSAI and OCAI assessments and new discussions of the implications of national cultural profiles.

Cameron and Quinn, both affiliated with the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, present a framework and a set of steps to help managers analyze and change their organizations' fundamental culture. They provide instruments for diagnosing organizational culture and for identifying key competencies needed to foster change. Suggestions are included for initiating culture change in four types of cultures: market, adhocracy, clan, and hierarchy cultures. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Helps managers, change agents, and scholars understand, diagnose, and facilitate transformation of an organization's culture. Provides a theoretical framework for understanding organizational culture, a systematic strategy and methodology for changing organizational culture and personal behavior, and instruments for diagnosing organizational culture and management competency. Instruments can be used to plot organizational culture, and material as a whole can be used as a resource for leading a culture change process. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Kim S. Cameron is professor of management and organization at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and professor of higher education in the School of Education at the University of Michigan.

Robert E. Quinn holds the Margaret Elliot Tracey Collegiate Professorship at the University of Michigan and serves on the organization and management faculty at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.