Passive-Aggressive Organization

In such organizations, information does not circulate freely, and that makes it difficult for workers to understand the impact of their actions on company performance and for managers to correctly appraise employees' value to the organization. I think I'm in a completely passive-aggressive organization. It's a college, so it's also got elements of the old school mentality that the old ways are good enough (or better!) We also have the problem of having too many managers (4 people in the department, 4 managers and 3 of those kind of manage the same area). Employees here give up making any kind of change within 6 mos. of their starting. As someone who really does care about the direction of the organization, I find this completely frustrating.Passive-aggressive organizations are friendly places to work: People are congenial, conflict is rare, and consensus is easy to reach. But, at the end of the day, even the best proposals fail to gain traction, and a company can go nowhere so imperturbably that it's easy to pretend everything is fine.I play poker for a living and many of the skills I've learned at the table translate to the corporate world. In order to be successful you should try to make the best possible decision for any occasion that might occur. Everything is people orientened. What works with one person may not work with another. You need to confront situations head-up and with a thoughtful approach to all the possible outcomes and be able and willing to adapt in a positive way to the inevitable curve-balls that get thrown your way.It would be nice to get your suggestion as to how a cultural change can be brought bear in a passive-aggressive organization. What we could do to improve such an organization? I am middle of it and wanted to improve the organization however, despite the effort to implement the method of organizational change described in no significant change can be made. Yet, efforts are rarely appreciate, in case sometimes, mid to sr level management seems to reject any notion of change.