Organizational culture and leadership

Edgar H. Schein

438 pages, parution le 02/10/2003 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

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.

What Culture Is and Does
- Defining Organizational Culture
- Uncovering the Levels of Culture
- Analyzing the Cultures of Two Organizations
The Dimensions of Culture
- Surviving in and Adapting to External Environments
- Managing Internal Integration
- Assumptions About Reality, Truth, Time, and Space
- Assumptions About Human Nature, Activity, and Relationships
How to Study and Interpret Culture
- Deciphering Culture for Insiders
- Reporting About Culture to Outsiders
- Ethical Problems in Studying Organizational Cultures
The Role of Leadership in Building Culture
- How Leaders Create Organizational Cultures
- How Founders and Leaders Embed and Transmit Culture: Socialization from a Leadership Perspective
- Organizational Midlife: Differentiation and the Growth of Subcultures
- Management and InformationTechnology: Two Subcultures in Collision?
The Evolution of Culture and Leadership
- The Dynamics of Culture Change and Leadership in Young Organizations
- The Leader's Role in Midlife, Mature, and Declining Organizations
- Facing the Complexities of Culture Change: A Case Study
- Learning Cultures and Learning Leaders
- The Learning Culture: Managing the Contradictions of Stability, Learning, and Change
- The Learning Leader as Culture Manager References
Index

L'auteur - Edgar H. Schein

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.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Jossey-Bass
Auteur(s)	Edgar H. Schein
Parution	02/10/2003
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	438
Format	15 x 22,7
Couverture	Broché
Poids	625g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780787903626