Organizational Culture and LeadershipJohn Wiley & Sons, 16 de ago. de 2010 - 464 páginas Regarded as one of the most influential management books of all time, this fourth and completely updated edition of Edgar Schein's Organizational Culture and Leadership focuses on today's complex business realities and draws on a wide range of contemporary research to demonstrate the crucial role of leaders in applying the principles of culture to achieve their organizational goals. Edgar Schein explores how leadership and culture are fundamentally intertwined, and reveals key findings about leadership and culture including:
If elements of the culture become dysfunctional, it is the leader's responsibility to do something to speed up culture change. In addition, the book contains new information that reflects culture at different levels of analysis from national and ethnic macroculture to team-based microculture. Praise for Prior Editions of Organizational Culture and Leadership "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 |
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Organizational Culture and Leadership Defined | 1 |
Why Bother? | 7 |
The Three Levels of Culture | 23 |
Two Case Examples | 35 |
Macrocultures Subcultures and Microcultures | 55 |
The Dimensions of Culture | 69 |
Assumptions About External Adaptation Issues | 73 |
Assumptions About Managing Internal Integration | 93 |
Embedding and Evolving Culture | 195 |
How FoundersLeaders Create Organizational Cultures | 219 |
How Leaders Embed and Transmit Culture | 235 |
The Changing Role of Leadership in Organizational Midlife | 259 |
What Leaders Need to Know About How Culture Changes | 273 |
How Leaders Can Manage | 297 |
Culture Assessment as Part of Managed Organizational Change | 315 |
Illustrations of Organizational Culture Changes | 329 |
What is Reality and Truth? | 115 |
The Nature of Time and Space | 125 |
Human Nature Activity and Relationships | 143 |
Culture Typologies and Culture Surveys | 157 |
Deciphering Organizational Cultures | 177 |
The Learning Culture and the Learning Leader | 365 |
Managing Multicultural Groups | 385 |
References | 401 |
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