ISBN:
0761970061
,
0761970053
,
9780761970057
,
9780761970064
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 214 S.
,
graph. Darst.
Edition:
Reprint.
DDC:
302.3/5 21
Keywords:
Corporate culture
;
Organisationskultur
;
Unternehmenskultur
;
Organisationskultur
;
Unternehmenskultur
Note:
Machine generated contents note: 1 The Concept of Organizational Culture 1 -- The meaning(s) of culture 3 -- Some comments on the contemporary interest in -- organizational culture 6 -- Cognitive interests 8 -- Objectives of this book 12 -- Summary 14 -- 2 Culture as a Metaphor and Metaphors for Culture 16 -- The metaphor concept 16 -- Metaphors in social science - nuisance or breakthroughs? 19 -- Metaphors - some problems 22 -- Culture as critical variable versus culture as root metaphor 24 -- Metaphors for culture 29 -- Summary 38 -- 3 Organizational Culture and Performance 42 -- The dominance of instrumental values 43 -- Approaches to the culture-performance relationship 47 -- The culture-performance relationship 53 -- Does culture cause anything? The problems of -- separating culture and other phenomena 56 -- Positive and less positive outcomes of corporate culture: -- a case study 58 -- The ambiguity of performance: blame time and milking 64 -- Conclusion 67 -- 4 Organizational
,
- 7 Multiple-level Shaping and Ambiguity of Culture 145 -- The appeal of 'pure' symbolism uncoupled from -- material practice 145 -- Taking work and social interaction into account 147 -- Conceptualizations of culture in terms of social level 153 -- Ambiguity and contradiction: a plurality of values -- and commitments 160 -- Summary 166 -- 8 Cultural Change and Conclusions 170 -- Reminder of the ambitions of this book 170 -- Against the trivialization of 'managing culture' 171 -- Managing culture 174 -- Organizational cultural change as a grand project, -- as organic movement or the re-framing of everyday life? 177 -- Working with change 181 -- A framework for thinking culturally of -- management and organization 186 -- Multiple cultural configurations and cultural traffic 190 -- Prospects 193
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