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Organizational Culture and Leadership, Third Edition
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Edgar H. Schein is Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus and a senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is founding editor of the journal of the Society for Organizational Learning, and author of numerous books, including The Corporate Culture Survival Guide.
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Preface.

The Author.

Part One: Organizational Culture and Leadership Defined.

1. The Concept of Organizational Culture: Why Bother?

2. The Levels of Culture.

3. Cultures in Organizations: Two Case Examples.

4. How Culture Emerges in New Groups.

Part Two: The Dimensions of Culture.

5. Assumptions About External Adaptation Issues.

6. Assumptions About Managing Internal Integration.

7. Deeper Cultural Assumptions About Reality and Truth.

8. Assumptions About the Nature of Time and Space.

9. Assumptions About Human Nature, Activity, and Relationships.

10. Cultural Typologies.

11. Deciphering Culture.

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

12. How Leaders Begin Culture Creation.

13. How Leaders Embed and Transmit Culture.

14. The Changing Role of Leadership in Organizational “Midlife”.

15. What Leaders Need to Know About How Culture Changes.

16. A Conceptual Model for Managed Culture Change.

17. Assessing Cultural Dimensions: A Ten-Step Intervention.

18. A Case of Organizational (Cultural?) Change.

19. The Learning Culture and the Learning Leader.

References.

Index.

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“This easy-to-read, practical guide is packed full of ideas, tools and techniques for influencing culture…” (Health Service Journal, 21st October 2004)

"Professional groups maintain their authority by…having specialised language, rituals and rules (Schein, 1992)." (Nursing Times, September 2006)

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