Organizational culture and leadership (4^th Ed.)

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: Leaders are entrepreneurs and the main architects of culture Once cultures are formed they influence what kind of leadership is possible 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

Preface to Fourth Edition ix

The Author xv

Part One: Organizational Culture and Leadership Defined

1. The Concept of Organizational Culture: Why Bother? 7

2. The Three Levels of Culture 23

3. Cultures in Organizations: Two Case Examples 35

4. Macrocultures, Subcultures, and Microcultures 55

Part Two: The Dimensions of Culture

5. Assumptions About External Adaptation Issues 73

6. Assumptions About Managing Internal Integration 93

7. Deeper Cultural Assumptions: What is Reality and Truth? 115

8. Deeper Cultural Assumptions: The Nature of Time and Space 125

9. Deeper Cultural Assumptions: Human Nature, Activity, and Relationships 143

10. Culture Typologies and Culture Surveys 157

11. Deciphering Organizational Cultures 177

Part Three: The Leadership Role in Building, Embedding, and Evolving Culture

12. How Culture Emerges in New Groups 197

13. How Founders/Leaders Create Organizational Cultures 219

14. How Leaders Embed and Transmit Culture 235

15. The Changing Role of Leadership in Organizational 'Midlife' 259

16. What Leaders Need to Know About How Culture Changes 273

Part Four: How Leaders Can Manage Culture Change

17. A Conceptual Model for Managed Culture Change 299

18. Culture Assessment as Part of Managed Organizational Change 315

19. Illustrations of Organizational Culture Changes 329

Part Five: New Roles for Leaders and Leadership

20. The Learning Culture and the Learning Leader 365

21. Cultural Islands: Managing Multicultural Groups 385

References 401

Index 415

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