What is a Healthy Culture?

Psychology is the subject that analyzes humansome friends perhaps)
behavior. Sociology describes in the same whyA Healthy culture is one where an organization
the behavior of social groups. Anthropology ordoes what it has to do. There are conflicts, but
cultural science analyses behavior of specificthey remain invisible for the outside world.
groups. With the risk of oversimplifying, one couldOne example where this is not the case:
argue that with psychology one studies humanA company is changing its CEO every one, two
behavior, culture is about studying group-behavior.or three years. Sometimes even after a few
Could we than make the same comparison tomonths. This is a sign of a sick culture, or at least
introduce the concept of a healthy culture,a sign of a problem in the organization.
referring to the mind of the organization?Manfred Kets de Vries has defined five types of
Psychology is about understanding the psyche oforganizations that are not healthy. He described
a person and how this affects his or hers action.these referring to mental diseases, like a
We are all different and one of these differencesmanic-depression. (1)
is rooted in out mind.Once the world outside notices internal problems,
A healthy culture can than be paralleled as havingyou can bet on a cultural problem or an unhealthy
a healthy psyche as one human being would have.culture. Every man has his cross to bear; people
This is an area we can all think about and it iswill know that also for companies. But when it is
easy to have an idea what a healthy personso obvious (for the world outside) you should do
would look like: someone who does his job, who issomething about it.
happy and who may have conflicts but those(1) - EzineArticles.com/?
remain invisible for the outside world (accept for