Organizational Culture Book

This five-part volume has two purposes: to explore the connections between culture inside and outside organizations, and to focus on a diverse range of methodologies useful in understanding organizational symbols, rituals, language, and distribution of power.Recognition of the prevalence and potency of workplace culture is not restricted to business scholars and social scientists. Anyone entering an unfamiliar work setting knows the feeling of being an outsider; gradually, one gains a sense of the feel, the smell, the personality of a workplace, a way of working, or a kind of work. The phenomenon has been considered as the character of an organization, its climate, ideology, and image. It encompasses notions of informal organization, norms, and emergent systems.Part One focuses on theoretical discussions and analyses of organizational culture. In Part Two, the contributors distinguish the process of cultural change from the deliberate management of that process. Part Three confronts the problem of how to conduct and manage research. Part Four places organizational culture in a wider social context. Part Five looks at the future of this area of organizational study.Read More