My assignment is to be able to have the following:

1. A critical review of theories of the nature of organisational culture, including how it may impact on innovation, and how it may be affected by the leaders of an organisation

2. An examination of how culture influences behaviours related to innovation and change in an organisation of your choice
3. A recommendation as to strategies and actions that could be implemented (by you or by the organisation's leaders) to enhance or create an appropriate culture.

And the paper is to discuss also the following:

Organizational culture and Innovation

Investigating organizational culture

Organisation politics and organisation culture

Shaping and Changing Culture

National Cultures

Leading Across Cultures

The paper should show:
1. Reflect critically upon organisational culture and the impact on innovation and change.
2. Identify and reflect upon significant values, beliefs and norms operating within organisations
3. Analyse overt and covert influences at work in organisations
4. Evaluate leadership styles which work positively with the complexity of organisational culture and politics
5. Assess the key organisational values on the process of innovation and change
Indicative contents:
1. Organisational culture: shared beliefs, values, norms behaviours
2. Group processes
3. Organisational politics
4. Shadow side influences in organisations
5. Leadership styles and culture

Core references:

EH Schein 2010/2004Organisational Culture and LeadershipJossey Bass
The text we recommended for purchase for the Strategic Thinking and Strategic Leadership module also has some useful ideas about organisational culture:
Gerry Johnson, Richard Whittington and Kevan Scholes 2011Exploring Strategy: Text and Cases, Pearson Education Ltd: Harlow
or the earlier edition:
*G Johnson, K Scholes and R Whittington 2008Exploring Corporate Strategy, 8th ed Prentice Hall

#Mats Alvesson and Stefan Sveningsson 2008Changing Organizational Culture, Routledge: London
#Ian Brooks 2009Organisational BehaviourFT/Prentice Hall: Harlow
#K Cameron and RE Quinn 2006Diagnosing and Changing Organisational CultureJossey Bass
#S Cartwright, CL Cooper, PC Earley, et al, (eds).The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate, Wiley: Chichester (# scanned chapter by Ulijn available in Moodle)
Jean Hartley and Layla Branicki 2006Managing with political awareness, Chartered Management Institute and Warwick University (available to download from www.managers.org.uk)
#G Hofstede 2001Culture's Consequences, Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA
*G Hofstede, GJ Hofstede and M Minkov 2010Cultures and OrganizationsMcGraw Hill: New York
*Linda Holbeche 2006Understanding change: theory, implementation and successElsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
# Robert House, PJ Hanges, M Javidan, PW Dorfman and V Gupta (eds) 2004Culture, leadership, and organizations : the GLOBE study of 62 societies, Sage: London (# scanned chapter by Javidan available on Moodle)
#Richard D Lewis 2006When Cultures CollideNicholas Brealey
#Jeffrey B K Liker and Michael Hoseus 2008Toyota Culture: the Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way, McGraw Hill: New York
#G Morgan 2006Images of OrganizationSage: London
*Laurie Mullins 2010Management and Organisational BehaviourFT/Prentice Hall
*F Trompenaars 2010Servant-leadership across cultures: harnessing the strength of the world's most powerful management philosophyMcGraw-Hill
#Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams 2003Business Across Cultures, Capstone: Chichester

The paper is limited with 3000 words. Please include forms, diagrams where needed. References must be cited