Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-259)

The third edition of the best-selling book Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture offers a proven framework and methodology for helping managers and their organisations carefully analyze and alter their fundamental culture. This book contains validated instruments for diagnosing organizational culture and management competency, theoretical framework for understanding organisational culture, and a systematic strategy for changing organisational culture and personal behaviour. Designed to be a hands-on resource, the book includes a wealth of instruments that leaders can use to plot their organisation's culture profile. Diagnosing and Changing Organisational Culture includes a management competency assessment instrument to help facilitate personal change in order to effectively support culture change. The book can also serve as an information source for explaining a robust framework of culture types. The Competing Values Framework is probably the most frequently applied framework in the world for assessing culture, and it has proved to be very useful to a variety of companies in clarifying the culture change process, as well as instigating significant managerial leadership improvement.