Organizational Culture and Leadership

Softbound: 464 pages
ISBN 0470190604
978-0470190609
Jossey-Bass
September 2010
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Regarded as one of the most influential management books of all time, this 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.

"This easy-to-read, practical guide is packed full of ideas, tools and techniques for influencing culture..." - Health Service Journal

"Professional groups maintain their authority by... having specialized language, rituals and rules." - Nursing Times

In this edition of his classic book, Edgar Schein shows how to transform the abstract concept of culture into a practical tool that managers and students can use to understand the dynamics of organizations and change.

Organizational pioneer Schein updates his influential understanding of culture -- what it is, how it is created, how it evolves, and how it can be changed.

Focusing on today's business realities, Schein draws on a wide range of contemporary research to redefine culture, offers new information on the topic of occupational cultures, and demonstrates the crucial role leaders play in successfully applying the principles of culture to achieve organizational goals. He also tackles the complex question of how an existing culture can be changed--one of the toughest challenges of leadership.

The result is a vital resource for understanding and practicing organizational effectiveness.

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.

"Worth reading again and again and again." –Booklist

"An organizational development pioneer uses an anthropological approach to address a leader’s role in shaping group and organizational dynamics." –Knowledge Management

"[Schein] is, to use an overworked word, a guru, the recognized expert in the field." –Inside Business

Edgar H. Schein is Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus and a senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is founding editor of the journal of the Society for Organizational Learning, and author of numerous books, including The Corporate Culture Survival Guide.

Pt. 1	Organizational culture and leadership defined	1
1	The concept of organizational culture : why bother?	3
2	The levels of culture	25
3	Cultures in organizations : two case examples	39
4	How culture emerges in new groups	63
Pt. 2	The dimensions of culture	85
5	Assumptions about external adaptation issues	87
6	Assumptions about managing internal integration	111
7	Deeper cultural assumptions about reality and truth	137
8	Assumptions about the nature of time and space	151
9	Assumptions about human nature, activity, and relationships	171
10	Cultural typologies	189
11	Deciphering culture	203
Pt. 3	The leadership role in culture building, embedding, and evolving	223
12	How leaders begin culture creation	225
13	How leaders embed and transmit culture	245
14	The changing role of leadership in organizational "midlife"	273
15	What leaders need to know about how culture changes	291
16	A conceptual model for managed culture change	319
17	Assessing cultural dimensions : a ten-step intervention	337
18	A case of organizational (cultural?) change	365
19	The learning culture and the learning leader	393

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