Understanding Organizational Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
`A most timely and comprehensive book [by] one of our most intrepid and intellectually astute authors writing on this topic. This is a lively, enthusiastic text that covers a good deal of territory, looking at a variety of contemporary organizational...
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`A most timely and comprehensive book [by] one of our most intrepid and intellectually astute authors writing on this topic. This is a lively, enthusiastic text that covers a good deal of territory, looking at a variety of contemporary organizational cultures. The book is fascinating, usefully provocative and of considerable relevance'- John Van Maanen, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIt is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in management and organization studies, organizational behaviour and on MBA programmes or sociology and psychology.
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' Understanding Organizational Culture is a most timely and comprehensive book. And Mats Alvesson is surely one of our most intrepid and intellectually astute authors writing on this topic. This is a lively, enthusiastic text that covers a good deal of territory, looking at a variety of contemporary organizational cultures. It manages to convey just why organizational culture studies continue to grow in number and quality. The book is fascinating, usefully provocative and of considerable relevance to understanding the source of so much of our work-a-day pleasures and frustrations' - John Van Maanen, Professor of Organization Studies, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe concept of culture is a key issue within management and organization studies. Understanding Organizational Culture provides a useful and comprehensive guide to understanding organizational culture, from a range of angles, contexts and sectors. The book answers questions of definition, explores alternative perspectives, and expands on substantive issues (such as leadership and change), before discussing key issues of research and providing a new framework for this topic.Mats Alvesson synthesizes for students the advances in the field of organizational culture, drawing upon the range of relevant literature within Organization Studies. The author also uses examples to develop and illustrate ideas on how cultural thinking can be used in managerial and non-managerial organizational theory and (theory-supported) practice.Understanding Organizational Culture provides great breadth within a textbook approach - covering a wide spectrum of management and organization while at the same time developing a new theoretical approach to organizational culture. It will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Management and Organization Studies, particularly key for modules in Organizational Behaviour, Organizational Theory and on MBA programmes. It is also relevant to students and
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Understanding Organizational Culture “
The Concept of Organizational CultureCulture as Metaphor and Metaphors for Culture
Organizational Culture and Performance
Organizational Culture and Business Administration
Leadership and Organizational Culture
Culture as Constraint
An Emancipatory Approach
Multiple-Level Shaping and Ambiguity of Culture
Cultural Change and Conclusions
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- Autor: Mats Alvesson
- 2002, 214 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Sage Publications
- ISBN-10: 0761970061
- ISBN-13: 9780761970064
Sprache:
Englisch
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