Significance and Examples of Culture Hacks in Practice

Culture Hacks are increasingly finding wider dissemination and use in business practice. They can be successful anywhere, they are independent of the size of the company, industry, life cycle or the professionalization level of the company. Of course, these factors do, however, exert a strong influence on their introduction processes and also on their acceptance. The drivers of the increasing dissemination of Culture Hacks in business practice are primarily the agile movement with the concept of “Management 3.0”, “New Work” and other, especially also technologically induced developments. Finally, this chapter also deals with the question of how Culture Hacks can come into the company. Individual Culture Hacks are already being used in many companies—even without calling them that. A possible comprehensive, strategic and systematic approach is presented in this book and can thus contribute to its dissemination in business practice. Finally, the different types of Culture Hacks are considered, their requirements and use are to be viewed quite differently. Likewise, their immediate effect and the effects caused on the organization can differ significantly in their respective dynamics. Some examples of the respective type of Culture Hacks illustrate these differences.