Integrating different organizational systems makes it easier for organizations to function, as the brain integrates systems for the body.Healthy organizations foster empathetic relationships, developing the capacity for interaction with others, both inside and outside of the organization.
Siegel has explored integration within and between relationships, brains, and minds, to understand how people achieve a sense of well-being. This is how that integration translates to organizations. I believe we can use this same approach to identify health in organizations.ĭr. Seigel explores how each piece of the triangle of human potential-relationships, the brain, and the mind-interacts to create well-being and health. The key, he posits, is integration-the linkage of differentiated parts. These elements can also be used to describe cultural attributes for organizations to emulate. Dr. Siegel, psychiatrist, author, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute, captures the elements of human mental health by identifying the connections between healthy relationships, a healthy brain, and a healthy mind. Anecdotally, there is more information about unhealthy, dysfunctional cultures than definitions of healthy ones. This paper explores an analogy to human well-being and defines healthy organizational culture.ĭr. When participating with others, a group culture emerges. The good life involves many experiences of doing things in groups-as children, in school and in activities like sports and for adults at work or in the community. “We study ethics in order to improve our lives.” Ethics is about actions that contribute to human flourishing. Attention paid to integrating relationships, functions, and introspection in organizations creates workplace environments that support ethical behavior. Daily headlines, soundbites, and tweets surface decisions made in organizations rife with practices that prevent people from acting ethically and environments allowing for adverse effects on the creation of value and other metrics of corporate performance. Using research that defines mental health in human beings, we can develop a definition of healthy organizational culture, providing people in workplaces a positive goal to work towards. Unhealthy culture is at the heart of scandal. Culture Self-Assessment Practice Defining Healthy Organizational Culture Ann Gregg SkeetĪnn Skeet is the senior director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
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