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Genuinely useful to those interested in effectiveness, leadership, and culture.
-- Joan V. Gallos, instructor in management, Radcliffe Seminars, Harvard University

Readers will:

* Understand team and organization dynamics
* See how new technologies influence organizations
* Learn about managing across cultural boundaries
* Gain insight into overcoming cultural resistance to change...and much more!

Focusing on the complex business realities of the '90s, organizational development pioneer Edgar H. Schein updates his influential understanding of culture, and lucidly demonstrates the crucial role leaders play in successfully applying the principles of culture to achieve their organizations' goals. Schein shows how to identify, nurture, and shape the cultures of organizations in any stage of development, and presents critical new learnings and practices in the field, including additional work on subcultures. The result is a vital aid to understanding and practicing organizational effectiveness.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• What Culture is and Does
• 1 Defining Organizational Culture
• 2 Why Culture Must Be Better Understood
• 3 Functions of Culture in Organizations
• 4 Content and Levels of Culture
• 5 How to Uncover Cultural Assumptions in an Organization
• 6 Ethical Problems in Culture Studies and Interventions
• How Cultures Begin and Develop
• 7 How Culture Forms: Theoretical Perspectives
• 8 Observing Culture Emerge in Small Groups
• 9 How Organization Founders Shape Culture
• 10 How Leaders Embed and Transmit Culture
• How Cultures Change
• 11 Understanding Culture Change in the Context of Organizational Change
• 12 Organizational Growth Stages and Culture Change Mechanisms
• 13 Analyzing the Change Process
• 14 Leadership as Managed Culture Change

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CHOICE Review

Schein has produced a valuable and thought-provoking examination of the concept of organizational culture. The interdisciplinary approach is especially valuable in an era in which academic study seems to be more and more narrowly bounded while national and international pressures cry out for breadth of understanding. Schein defines and explains the concept of culture, sharply contrasting two organizational cultures (``multi'' and ``action'') used to illustrate the issues. Part 2 is analytic and deals with the evolution of culture and its moderation by leaders/culture formers. The final section deals with change and organization, and Chapter 12 proved to be of great value in understanding the overall thesis. This book is a worthy product from a distinguished and respected author. The references are excellent; the index is satisfactory. Upper-division and graduate collections as well as professional libraries.-E. Owens, Western Washington University

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

EDGAR H. SCHEIN is professor of management at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the founders of the field of organizational development, Schein has authored numerous books and consults with organizations worldwide. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.