The Common Ground process: an integrative approach to jointly shaping work culture

In our article on this topic, published in issue no. 2-2016 of the Zeitschrift für OrganisationsEntwicklung (ZOE), we look at the question of

how managers can be supported externally in achieving their goals better and more sustainably together with their organizational unit. This is shown using the example of the international rolling bearing group SKF, which has been using measures for (management) teams since 2010 to create a common basis for the working culture, the so-called common ground. Based on follow-up discussions with participating managers and employees, the article describes the experiences, effects and process steps of the Common Ground process.

The authors of the article are Brigitte Schwinge (p4d GmbH), Claus-Bernhard Pakleppa (p4d GmbH) and Wolfgang Sutterlüti (AB SKF).

You can find a sample of the article here.

The article was first published in ZOE issue no. 2-2016 (p. 54-59) with the main topic “Room for change”. Further information can be found at www.zoe-online.org. The copyright for the article is held by Handelsblatt Fachmedien GmbH.

Here you can read the complete article in the ePaper of the magazine OrganisationsEntwicklung