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"Culture Shift a Mandate for Leaders"
Author: Smith, Glenn R.
Published In: Proceedings of the 1999 Educational Conference
Date: 1999

Presentation at APPA's 86th Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. Emphasizes change as not only inevitable, but essential and desirable, but notes that higher education institutions are, by their very nature, highly resistant to internal change. Discusses institutional culture and change, defining both and presenting numerous examples from contemporary authors.  Covers culture as a continuum, leadership styles, motivational techniques, relationships in organizational cultures, sustaining forces in organizational cultures, stewardship cultural model, and changing organizational culture.  Includes unannotated bibliography.

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