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Community Matters
Edition 5, 2018 • October
Culture is key to healthy community organisations
Is your organisation’s culture healthy enough to cope with a public airing of a problem? BY DENIS MORIARTY, GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR, OUR COMMUNITY
Words, like people, have their good times and their bad times. This is a very bad year for the word “culture”, largely because of the banking royal commission. Every media article on Mr Justice Hayne’s nameand-shame extravaganza uses the word at least twice: a “toxic culture” here, a “poisonous culture” there, a “culture of greed” all around.
The royal commission is lifting the lid off a number of organisations and letting the public peer in, and the public’s mood could be described in a terms of a spike in demand for pitchforks and torches. It’s not just banks either. The RSL, the ABC, private schools and the Catholic Church have their own cultures, and all have been taking
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