- Hardcover: 418 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.; 2nd Edition edition (Oct 30 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1555424872
- ISBN-13: 978-1555424879
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.7 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 680 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #825,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A real winner from one of our best thinkers on leadership and organizational culture." -- Robert G. Simerly, dean, Division of Continuing Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"A wonderfully insightful, beautifully written, straightforward presentation of Schein's perspective on organizational culture." -- Benjamin Schneider, professor of psychology, University of Maryland, College Park
"Schein offers a book that is genuinely useful to those interested in effectiveness, leadership, and culture. He tackles difficult questions and proposes sophisticated theories and solutions." -- Joan V. Gallos, instructor in management, Radcliffe Seminars, Harvard University
"A wonderfully insightful, beautifully written, straightforward presentation of Schein's perspective on organizational culture." -- Benjamin Schneider, professor of psychology, University of Maryland, College Park
"Schein offers a book that is genuinely useful to those interested in effectiveness, leadership, and culture. He tackles difficult questions and proposes sophisticated theories and solutions." -- Joan V. Gallos, instructor in management, Radcliffe Seminars, Harvard University
Book Description
Genuinely useful to those interested in effectiveness, leadership, and culture. -- Joan V. Gallos, instructor in management, Radcliffe Seminars, Harvard University Readers will: * Understand team and organization dynamics * See how new technologies influence organizations * Learn about managing across cultural boundaries * Gain insight into overcoming cultural resistance to change...and much more! Focusing on the complex business realities of the '90s, organizational development pioneer Edgar H. Schein updates his influential understanding of culture, and lucidly demonstrates the crucial role leaders play in successfully applying the principles of culture to achieve their organizations' goals. 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.
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