The Character of Organizations
- 2h 52m
- William Bridges
- Intercultural Press
- 2000
An enormous consulting industry has sprung up promising to help organizations overhaul themselves to meet today's competitive pressures. Yet far too often, such change efforts fail. The solution, according to best-selling management author William Bridges, lies in identifying, understanding, and working with what he calls organizational character.
Just as people have personalities, Bridges explains, organizations - as well as their departments and teams - have characters. An organization's character shapes how decisions get made and new ideas are received, how employees are treated and change is accepted or rejected - all factors that affect company performance. Using examples from McDonald's, Hewlett-Packard, GE, and other companies, Bridges identifies 16 organizational character types using the framework of MBTI? personality types and shows how these influence an organization's growth and development. With a foreword by Sandra Krebs Hirsh and a new preface by the author, this updated edition of the time-tested classic includes the Organizational Character Index, Bridges' popular tool for assessing the character of your own organization or team.
About the Author
William Bridges, Ph.D. is listed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 10 indpendent executive development presenters in America. He is president of William Bridges and Associates and for 20 years he has worked with organizations to help them through change and transition. Author of the best-selling books Transitions, Managing Transitions, JobShift?, and Creating You & Co., Bridges is one of the most widely read and quoted experts on managing change and transition in today's organizations.
In this Book
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The Character of Organizations—Using Personality Type in Organization Development
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Foreword
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Organizational Character and Where It Comes From
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Identifying Organizational Character
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The Sixteen Types of Organizational character
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Character, Growth, and Change
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Character and Organization Development
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Organizational Character and Individual Type
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Character and Destiny
