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.
This second edition updates Schein's influential understanding of culture - what it is, how it is created, how it evolves, and how it can be changed - and lucidly demonstrates the crucial role leaders play in successfully applying the ...
Presents a comprehensive analysis of organizational culture - what it is, how it develops, and how it functions in relation to managerial style and organizational effectiveness.
A unique feature of this book is that while it is an edited book and many experts have written the different chapters, unlike other edited books, it is a fully integrated, seamless, and cohesive book covering the many aspects of the theory ...
In this book, John McGuire and Gary Rhodes of the renowned Center for Creative Leadership offer a practical guide for achieving feasible culture transformation by helping leaders see how leading the culture and managing the operations are ...
The father of the corporate culture field and pioneer in organizational psychology on today's changing corporate culture This is the definitive guide to corporate culture for practitioners.
Much of this story is told in Thomas H. Davenport and Brook Manville, Judgment Calls: 12 Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2012), 143–160. Davenport and Manville, 148.
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Against a background of continuing disagreement on what leadership is, Truskie offers his own concise concept by delineating leadership's two critical tasks: establishing organizational direction and developing organizational effectiveness.
Tried and tested toolkits and templates plus case studies from organizations who have successfully implemented this approach including London Ambulance Service, Aviva, The FT and British Retail Consortium are contained within ...
Finally, although this chapter highlights ecological sustainability as a current issue, it is just one of many ... NOTES 1. Strength in this chapter generally refers to positive strong points of the organization, its members, ...