On studying organizational cultures : diagnosis and understanding /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
W. de Gruyter,
1995.
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Colección: | De Gruyter studies in organization ;
58. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Culture in Organization Theory
- Position within Organizational Theory
- Culture as a New Metaphor
- Culture as a New Approach
- Contribution to Organizational Theory
- Cultural Diversity
- Variable or Metaphor
- Integration, Differentiation and Ambiguity
- Rationalism, Functionalism and Symbolism
- Choice of Competing Perspectives
- Functionalism and Symbolism
- Empirical Field of Study
- Choice of Focus
- Empirical Material
- Chapter 2. A Functionalist Perspective
- The Functions of Organizational CultureThe Functional Existence of Culture
- The Functional Explanation of Culture
- The Functions of Organizational Culture
- The Levels of Culture
- Three Levels of Culture
- Internal Relations between the Levels of Culture
- The Cultural Paradigm
- Relations between Cultural Levels and their Functions
- Sorting out Cultural Data
- The Specific Functions of Organizational Culture
- A Functionalist Analytical Model: The Funnel
- Subcultures in Organizations
- A Clinical versus Ethnographic Method
- Chapter 3. Functionalist Diagnosis of Organizational CultureArtifacts and Values in a Department
- The Artifact Level: A Stratified Paper Pyramid
- The Value Level: Means
- The Value Level: Power and Status
- Summary of the Value Level
- Basic Assumptions in the Department
- The Method of the Analysis of Basic Assumptions
- Nobody Does it Better than We Do!
- The Members of the Organization are at the Center!
- This Belongs to Us!
- The Organization�s Members are Able and Ready to Passively Adapt Themselves!
- There is only One Truth, which Can Be Discovered from WithinThe Organization Members Constitute a Family which Works
- The Cultural Paradigm
- The Core of the Cultural Paradigm
- Consistency and Inconsistency of the Cultural Paradigm
- Tracing Backwards from Basic Assumptions
- Relations between Basic Assumptions and Values
- Inconsistency between Values and Basic Assumptions
- Consistency between Values and Basic Assumptions
- Unclarity between Values and Basic Assumptions
- A Mixed Culture
- The Effects of Artifacts in Relation to Values and Basic AssumptionsConsequences for the Functionalist Funnel Model
- The Diagnosis of Organizational Culture
- Chapter 4. A Symbolic Perspective
- Symbolism
- The Creation of Meaning
- Symbols: The Expression of Meaning
- Symbols in a Semiotic Context
- The Multidimensional Reality
- Culture as System
- A Multiplicity of Interpretations
- Webs of Meaning
- Symbols
- Physical Symbols: Objects
- Behavioral Symbols: Rituals
- Verbal Symbols: Myths, Sagas and Stories
- Patterns between Symbols