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The Little Book of Big Coaching Models ePub eBook: 83 ways to help managers get the best out of people
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The Little Book of Big Coaching Models ePub eBook: 83 ways to help managers get the best out of people

by Bob Bates
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
257 pages
5h 1m
English
Pearson Education
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SECTION 3

GET THE WORKPLACE CULTURE RIGHT

INTRODUCTION

The concept of culture in organisations has grown in significance over the past 20 years. This is partly because of dissatisfaction with the focus on the structural and technical aspects of the operating systems in some organisations and partly because of the shift in emphasis to the world of values and ideology.

But what exactly do we mean by culture? I once asked a group of middle-managers from a major car manufacturing company to tell me what culture meant to them. Their answers ranged from ‘values and beliefs’ to ‘the blobby bits that grow in your cup over the weekend if you forget to wash it’. I acknowledged that values and beliefs certainly had an impact on culture, and that even the ...

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ISBN: 9781292081526