LP737 Week 8: Org Culture and Adult Development

This week we shift our focus from individual development to organizations — specifically how the structure and culture of organizations both influences and is influenced by the developmental levels of their members. We’ll explore typical organizational structures and cultures associated with each developmental level, and also learn about “deliberately developmental organizations.” We’ll also begin exploring whether and how the developmental lens we have been using to study individuals can also be usefully applied to groups and organizations.

Readings Links to electronic versions of the required readings are in a Google folder here (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XD6SloRnTuqTJodmx5tYXIa_0A3e-dZv?usp=sharing) .

Required

1. LaLoux, F. (2014) Chap. 1.1 “Changing Paradigms: Past and Present Organizational Models,” in Reinventing Organizations, pp. 13-36.

2. Kegan, R. & Lahey, L. (2016) An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization (http://search.ebscohost.com.williamjames.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx? direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1798416&site=ehost-live&scope=site&ebv=EK&ppid=Page-__-1) , “Introduction: Culture as Strategy,” pp. 1-10, and Chap. 1, “Meet the DDO’s,” pp.11-56. (Links to library for access to eBook)

3. Quinn and Cameron (1983), “Organizational Lifecycles and Shifting Criteria of Effectiveness,” Journal of Management Science, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 33-51.

4. Next Jump. (2016). Next Jump as a Deliberately Developmental Organization. [Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHnNRKU1tVM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHnNRKU1tVM)