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Intentional cultural change

Current Opinion in Psychology, 2016
As a process of blind variation and selective retention, evolution lacks intentionality. Nevertheless, intentional processes can be a product of evolution and can double back to effect evolution. This article briefly describes how intentional processes evolve, how they figure in human cultural evolution, and how future cultural evolution needs to ...
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A model for cultural change

International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, 2011
When change is required in an organisation, perhaps due to a business purchase, the award of a contract or the recognition that current business performance must improve, the management team may decide that they need to change the behaviour of the employees to generate the success and returns for the business envisaged.
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Culture and Change: Conflict or Consensus?

Leadership & Organization Development Journal, 1993
Discusses the need to understand better cultural diversity in international business.
Lloyd, Bruce, Trompenaars, Fons
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The changing culture of chemistry

Nature Chemistry, 2017
We all appreciate how chemical knowledge has advanced over the years, but Bruce C. Gibb reminds us that chemical culture has similarly made great advances.
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Liminality as Cultural Process for Cultural Change

Organization Science, 2011
This paper offers a revised understanding of intentional cultural change. In contrast to prevailing accounts, we suggest that such change can take place in the absence of initiating jolts, may be infused in everyday organizational life, and led by insiders who need not hold hierarchical power. Drawing on data from field studies and in-depth interviews,
Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville, Karen Golden-Biddle, Jennifer Irwin, Jina Mao   +3 more
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Cultural change versus behavioral change

Health Care Management Review, 1987
Health care culture is a powerful force in hospitals that must be taken into consideration in attempting to effect changes in employees' behaviors. A survey can be taken to assess the cultural climate of a health care institution.
R D, Nordstrom, B H, Allen
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Cultural Change in Spatial Environments

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2003
A cellular automata model is used to study aspects of cultural change in spatial environments. Cultures are represented as bit strings in individual cells. Cultures may change because they become more similar to prevailing nearby cultures, are subject to intrinsic random changes, or expand to previously empty cells. Extending Axelrod's (1997) results,
Parisi D, Cecconi F, Natale F
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Changing the culture in radiotherapy

The British Journal of Radiology, 2003
A meeting (Treatment Machine Commissioning– Changing the Culture) was held in London in November 2001 to discuss the implications of the recent injection of funding for radiotherapy equipment. Radiotherapy today has reached a point where technological changes have created the possibility of delivering higher therapeutic doses to more precisely targeted
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Changing Culture

Journal of the American College of Radiology, 2018
Frank J, Lexa, David, Fessell
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Blood Cultures and Culture Change

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 2019
McKenzie, Stacey W., Means, Robert T.
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