The Professional ScrumMaster's Handbook

A corporate culture and its impact on teamwork

Think about your corporate culture: does it support collaboration and creativity, or is it focused on creating internal competition and/or obsessed with controlling everything. Collaborative workplaces are "open" and "sharing" and place high value on teamwork, participation, and consensus. Creative cultures encourage risk-taking and experimentation and initiative and freedom of the individual. In a control corporate culture, rules and processes govern behavior and management wants security and predictability. Competing organizations emphasize winning and competitive action (Bruce M. Tharp, http://www.haworth.com/en-us/knowledge/workplace-library/Documents/Four-Organizational-Culture-_Types_6.pdf ...