The Nebulous Nature Of Organizational Culture belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter supervision meetings, staff training, clinic systems, and performance review. In The Nebulous Nature Of Organizational Culture, for this course, the practical stakes show up in better performance, lower drift, and more sustainable team development, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Organizational culture is an amorphous concept with considerable influence over how things are done within organizational settings (Kell & Carrott, 2005). Companies like Zappos, Google, or Netflix are evangelists when it comes to the importance of organizational culture and how their unique cultures have led to their winning outcomes as organizations. High-performing, winning cultures cannot be spoken into existence. While this is no secret, culture is not just what we say it is – it's so much more. Building a winning culture is an endeavor that matters, but it's also not as easy as having company parties or offering cold brew coffee in the offices. You might be asking "if it's not what we say it is, and it's not the things we do to help attract and engage our people, then what exactly is culture and how can we build it?" That's the question we aim to answer in this presentation.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
Dr. El Fattal started his career in classroom settings working with students diagnosed with autism. During that time, he served as a behavior technician, early intervention classroom teacher, autism and behavior specialist, and program administrator overseeing one of Southern California's largest autism programs. As a school district employee, he received extensive training over the course of a decade through Autism Partnership in Seal Beach, California. Dr. El Fattal is currently the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Maraca Learning, a clinician-led autism therapy provider headquartered in Boise, Idaho. Since his inspiration to take a leap of faith in leaving education, he's started 3 different ABA organizations, all of which have been successful under his leadership. He's also served as a board advisor to a multi-state autism therapy platform where he was engaged as a subject matter expert in ABA and organizational health. In addition to his expertise in ABA, Dr. El Fattal developed a specialization in organizational behavior management through his doctoral training and private enterprises. As a PhD student, he studied under Dr. Amanda Mahoney at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and conducted his dissertation research in behavioral systems analysis and performance management. Dr. El Fattal has presented nationally and internationally in Morocco and Romania. He’s been a guest associate editor for Behavior Analysis in Practice. He has also served as an Adjunct Faculty in the Child and Adolescent Studies Department at Cal State University of Fullerton where he also co-founded the Autism Speaks U Group on campus with one of his students. His research agenda includes subjects related to multi-disciplinary approaches to organizational culture, OBM, ABA as an industry, and issues of quality in autism treatment.
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