UPenn - The Power of Team Culture
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Duration | 8 hours |
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Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
The Power of Team Culture at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Course 1 of 5 in the Culture-Driven Team Building Specialization
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 8 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
The Power of Team Culture at Coursera Course details
- Behind the success and failure of teams lies team culture. But what exactly is culture? How and why does it contribute to success and failure? In this course, you learn how to recognize aspects of team culture of which most people are typically unaware. It is often these seemingly unimportant aspects that have the greatest effect on the outcomes of group tasks. Your recognition of them enables you to form, join and lead teams more effectively. You also come to appreciate the role of ritual and symbols in the daily operation of teams, as well as in situations of change and crisis. Knowledge of the ideas and information in this class enables you to be a better team player and a more effective team leader.
The Power of Team Culture at Coursera Curriculum
Course Overview
Syllabus
Meet Dr. Greg Urban
Why Culture Matters in Organizations
1.1 Introduction
1.2 What are Teams?
1.3 A Closer Look at Culture
1.4 Culture as Cultivation
1.5 Being Unaware of Culture
1.6 Expectations and Realities
1.7 The Little Cultural Things that Matter
1.8 Culture Shock
1.9 Habitus
1.10 Characteristic Ways of Speaking within the Team
1.11 What We Say Versus What We Do
1.12 Hiring and Cultural Fit
1.13 High Culture
Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan
Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service Firms
Why Culture Matters in Organizations
Crossing Cultural Boundaries
2.1 Two Examples of Cultural Boundaries
2.2 Why Police Boundaries
2.3 Culture in Motion
2.4 Golden Arches East
2.5 The Art of Smiling
2.6 The Right to Fire
2.7 The Law of Jante
2.8 Cultural Relativity and Ethnocentrism
2.9 Avoid Stereotyping
2.10 A Checklist of Little Differences for Business
2.11 Gestures as Boundary Marker
2.12 Corporate Personhood
Crossing Cultural Boundaries
Cultural Relativity & Moral Judgments
Corporations in Culture
Team Rituals and Symbols
3.1 Burning the American Flag
3.2 Team Mascots
3.3 The Concept of the Symbol
3.4 Transference of Affective Quality
3.5 The Motivational Video
3.6 People as Symbols
3.7 The Pragmatics of Motivational Speech
3.8 Symbolic Meaning of Stories
3.9 Instrumental Symbols: The Gavel
3.10 Individual and Collective Rituals
3.11 Types of Rituals in Business
3.12 Initiation, Enhancement, and Group Worship
Symbols
Rituals & Culture
Rituals & Symbols in Organizational Culture
Effecting Cultural Continuity and Change
4.1 Culture in Time
4.2 The Inertial Forces
4.3 Habit and Drift
4.4 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 1
4.5 More on Reflective Culture or Metaculture as a Force
4.6 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 2
4.7 Inertia and Change: An Ancient Egyptian Case, Part 3
4.8 Secret to Successful Cultural Change
4.9 Introducing the Force of Interest
4.10 Interest at the Interface between Different Inertial Patterns
4.11 The Conditional Motion of Culture
4.12 Conclusion
Rules, Ultimate Causes, and Cultural Motion by Greg Urban
Effecting Cultural Continuity & Change
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