Leaders drive values, values drive behavior, behavior drives culture, and culture drives performance.
But eliminating the behavior requires companies to change what is considered acceptable behavior in their culture.
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Normative control refers to systems where behavior is regulated by culture and norms.
The monthly magazine Cat Fancy covers feline health, behavior, rescue, culture and lifestyle, and its ads tend to sell products like cat litter, cat furniture and cat-themed jewelry.
The final session for Tuesday I plan to investigate is Jon Ingham and Margaret Schweer session on People, Culture and Behavior that touches on internal politics and divisions that weaken companies.
If ornithologists told us that starlings were imitating the group behavior endemic to tech-adoption culture, it would be easy to see the similarity.
Mr. SCHACTMAN: At the Army, the idea is, okay, let's simulate everything about human behavior in Iraq, like its culture, its politics, everything.
Recently, I observed a company where passive-aggressive behavior is rapidly becoming embedded into the culture of the organization.
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Jimmy Jellinek, the editorial director of Playboy, said Mr. Flanders could sometimes be a "terrible SOB, " but he's never seen him cross the line into unprofessional behavior, attributing the shift in company culture to the fact that the company went from being public to being backed by the "Wild West" world of private equity.
What went on in the officer's head is something that I can only guess but, based on over 30 years of experience in the doing, teaching and studying of the police profession, I would venture to say that race had nothing to do with the behavior displayed and that the sub-culture of police work dictated the action, more than any possible bias or prejudice.
This strongly suggests that one's background and experiences, what we might call culture, does indeed contribute to bad behavior.
However, it is strongly engrained in the German culture to avoid this type of inflationary behavior due to horrible past experiences.
In contrast, the American culture tends to embrace individualistic and nonconforming behavior.
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But he scored points by appearing extra-solicitous with his counterpart, behavior that is valued in the deeply Confucian traditional culture of both Koreas.
As culture and commerce intersect, some unusual behavior has emerged.
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"When military leaders are held accountable for countenancing bad behavior, then you'll begin to see a shift in the culture, " she said.
It is a business transformation involving organizational culture, enterprise business processes, customer relations, and workforce behavior just as much as it is a change to the enterprise IT infrastructure.
Passive-aggressive behavior in any company is one of the most destructive cancers to a culture that ends up killing both a great company, and the self-esteem of the individuals working there.
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In a January 2007 column, I wrote about how Tony Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts who led his team to victory in the Super Bowl last year, pushes his players hard but doesn't curse at them, chew them out, or speak to them sarcastically -- unusual behavior in the National Football League's scream-and-holler culture.
China has a unique culture, rising income levels, a developed internet, and established online spending behavior.
While we all know incentives drive behavior, Pret reports that basing the rewards on attitudes over performance creates a more persistent culture of teamwork.
Melting-pot institutions like the U.S. military prefer not to dwell too much on the particulars of a soldier's culture: Much of their purpose is to substitute personal belief with common standards of behavior.
In a celebrity-saturated culture, it can be difficult for adults to draw the line between what is acceptable behavior and what may work in the fantasy land that exists in the Hollywood Hills, but isn't actually real-world appropriate.
Managers should be aware that fostering a culture of intense competition, in an honest attempt to motivate employees, may instead induce unethical behavior.
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But linking the behavior of humans to their evolutionary past was fraught with perils, not least because of the difficulty of disentangling culture and biology.
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