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Organization culture and leadership / Edgar H. Schein with Peter Schein.

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: Fifth editionDescription: 1 online resource (411 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781119212133
  • 1119212138
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Organization culture and leadership.DDC classification:
  • 302.35 23
LOC classification:
  • HD58.7.S34 2017 .S34 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface to fifth edition -- Foreword -- Defining the structure of culture -- How to define culture in general -- How to describe and analyze the three levels of culture -- A young and growing u.s. engineering organization -- A mature swiss-german chemical organization -- A developmental government organization in singapore -- What leaders need to know about macro cultures -- Dimensions of the macro cultural context -- A focused way of working with macro cultures -- Culture and leadership through stages of growth -- How culture begins and the role of the founder of organizations -- How external adaptation and internal integration become culture -- How leaders embed and transmit culture -- The culture dynamics of organizational growth, maturity and decline -- Natural and guided cultural evolution -- Assessing culture and leading planned change -- Deciphering culture -- The diagnostic/quantitative approach to assessment and planned change -- The dialogic qualitative culture assessment process -- A model of change management and the change leader -- The change leader as learner.
Summary: Organizational Culture and Leadership is the classic reference for managers and students seeking a deeper understanding of the inter-relationship of organizational culture dynamics and leadership. Author Edgar Schein is the 'father' of organizational culture, world-renowned for his expertise and research in the field; in this book, he analyzes and illustrates through cases the abstract concept of culture and shows its importance to the management of organizational change. This new fifth edition shows how culture has become a popular concept leading to a wide variety of research and implementation by various organizations and expands the focus on the role of national cultures in influencing culture dynamics, including some practical concepts for how to deal with international differences. --
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface to fifth edition -- Foreword -- Defining the structure of culture -- How to define culture in general -- How to describe and analyze the three levels of culture -- A young and growing u.s. engineering organization -- A mature swiss-german chemical organization -- A developmental government organization in singapore -- What leaders need to know about macro cultures -- Dimensions of the macro cultural context -- A focused way of working with macro cultures -- Culture and leadership through stages of growth -- How culture begins and the role of the founder of organizations -- How external adaptation and internal integration become culture -- How leaders embed and transmit culture -- The culture dynamics of organizational growth, maturity and decline -- Natural and guided cultural evolution -- Assessing culture and leading planned change -- Deciphering culture -- The diagnostic/quantitative approach to assessment and planned change -- The dialogic qualitative culture assessment process -- A model of change management and the change leader -- The change leader as learner.

Organizational Culture and Leadership is the classic reference for managers and students seeking a deeper understanding of the inter-relationship of organizational culture dynamics and leadership. Author Edgar Schein is the 'father' of organizational culture, world-renowned for his expertise and research in the field; in this book, he analyzes and illustrates through cases the abstract concept of culture and shows its importance to the management of organizational change. This new fifth edition shows how culture has become a popular concept leading to a wide variety of research and implementation by various organizations and expands the focus on the role of national cultures in influencing culture dynamics, including some practical concepts for how to deal with international differences. --

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