Culture or cultures?

Who is responsible for organisational culture?

Everyone? The Executive? Or the focus of this article, middle managers?

The answer is a resounding Yes to all three!

What I like about this article is the emphasis on how there is more than one culture. It discusses Big-C, small-c and sub-cultures but focuses on the role middle managers can play when they engage in enriching their small-c cultures rather than simply endorsing the Big-C culture.

I remember hearing an interview with an academic theologian who highlighted that our use of the term Christianity encompassed the high church with its formality and rituals, the snake-charming Pentecostalism of the southern US and a million things in between.

With the emphasis on diversity and its benefits, perhaps it's time for more thinking on diversity within organisational culture is called for.

#culture #middlemanagers #diversity

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/building-culture-from-the-middle-out/