Organizational Culture and Leadership

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This paper analyzes various theoretical foundations associated with system-wide organizational development, organizational culture and leadership and organizational change. It focuses on the underlying methods of achieving performance excellence in a university entity. The paper then integrates the disparities among theories to form a comprehensive view of achieving performance excellence in a higher education organization. The paper contains information in tables.

Table of Contents:
Review and Discussion
Organizational Culture and Leadership
Organizational Change
System-Wide Organizational Development Theories

From the Paper:

"These trends in organizational development have become even more complex and convoluted in recent years as innovations in telecommunications have fundamentally transformed the traditional workplace into one that is increasingly characterized by so-called virtual teams and groups where co-workers and supervisors may not meet face to face on a regular basis. Early on, Davidow and Malone (1992) indicated that the increasing use of self-managing teams in the American workplace represents the beginnings of the less structured settings that will emerge in virtual corporations. It would therefore be unwise and perhaps even dangerous to attempt to apply the tenets of any of these organizational development theories today without understanding the basis for the theoretical perspective or worse yet, applying such tenets without regard for the other relevant factors that must be taken into account whenever an entire system is considered, particularly in view of the profound transformations that have taken place in companies by virtue of telecommuting, email communication and virtual teams and groups."

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