Org Culture
The scholarly website on organizational culture that is being reviewed is the Harvard Business Review, which produces content on a variety of business issues, among them organizational culture and mentoring. Within this website there are a number of articles, some of which were written for publication in the Harvard Business Review itself, and others of which were produced for the HBR.org blog network. The blogs are produced by experts from both industry and academia in order to inform readers and stimulate discussion on these business topics.
An example of how the site works is found in a blog post by Watkins (2013). This post discusses the author's attempts to spark a discussion about the subject on LinkedIn, and the responses that this discussion generated. This is an interesting post because it gathers a wide variety of opinions about organizational culture and uses quotes from different site users as prompts to cover off a variety of issues with respect to the subject.
The HBR site has a number of pieces...
Another piece (Coleman, 2013) highlights the different elements of a corporate culture. There are a number of different approaches to understanding the idea of organizational culture because the concept is fairly vague and ill-defined, but yet is relevant to many organizations. Thus, it takes a lot of thinking to understand and define the nature of organizational culture. Using evidence from companies is definitely helpful, and is an approach taken by HBR authors and blog post writers.
The HBR website can positively affect organizational function, because it provides a high quality level of discourse on the subject. There is a tremendous body of knowledge about organizational culture -- and mentoring as well -- and this knowledge can help practitioners to understand both what other companies are doing and also what academics are determining from their studies of culture. One of the great strengths of HBR.org is the way that the…
