Organizational Culture and Leadership Author: Edgar H. Schein | Language: English | ISBN:
0470190604 | Format: PDF
Organizational Culture and Leadership Description
Regarded as one of the most influential management books of all time, this fourth edition of Leadership and Organizational Culture transforms the abstract concept of culture into a tool that can be used to better shape the dynamics of organization and change. This updated edition focuses on today's business realities. Edgar Schein draws on a wide range of contemporary research to redefine culture and demonstrate the crucial role leaders play in successfully applying the principles of culture to achieve their organizational goals.
- Paperback: 464 pages
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 4 edition (August 16, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470190604
- ISBN-13: 978-0470190609
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This is the Fourth Edition of a "business classic" that was first published in 1985. I am always curious to know how a book with a 400-page narrative is organized. In Part I, Schein defines and describes culture as a structural concept; in Part II, he focuses on the content of culture and the process of deciphering assumptions; in Part III, he describes and explains various mechanisms and processes by which culture changes, noting that change in organizational midlife "is primarily a matter of deliberately taking advantage of the diversity that the growth of subcultures makes possible"; in Part IV, he shifts his attention to "the difficult question of how to change culture when the normal evolutionary processes are not working or are too slow; and then in Part V, he shifts his attention again to "many new kinds of work units such as multicultural task forces, v ventures and partnerships, and v networks. These new kinds of organizations will require a different kind of culture management because they will be [begin italics] multi [end italics] cultural. There will also be muticultural challenges that must be met with effective multicultural leadership.
These are among the dozens of passages that caught my eye, also listed to indicate the scope of Schein's coverage.
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