The Challenge of Culture: A Reflection on an Effort to Assert Collaboration in a 4-year Office Term

During our 4-years office term, collaboration had been our recurring theme, and can be found in various degree of implementation. This article is a report on our pseudo-action research that tries to identify the organizational culture that affect our effort in establishing collaboration between departments in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Planning at Itenas. We use Schein's three level of culture to dissect into the artifacts, espoused beliefs, and assumption that related directly to our effort in establishing collaboration as a shared value. Factors affecting the success/failure of our effort were also discussed in term of approach, leadership, motivation, and setting.