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Organizational culture
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Edgar Schein, Organizational
Culture and Leadership, Jossey-Bass, 1996
One of the very best books on organizational culture. Intelligent and
detailed understanding of what culture is, rather than a list of cultural
attributes. Includes significant chapters on how leaders shape culture. |
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Edgar Schein, The Corporate Culture Survival
Guide, Jossey Bass, 1999
More classic work from Schein. This time on effectively assessing and
changing culture. Classifies culture particularly in terms of artefacts,
tacit values and shared assumptions. |
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John Kotter, Corporate Culture and
Performance, Free Press, 1992
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of a solid study of corporate culture, where it is found that a strong
culture alone is not enough for success. For example culture must also align
with market forces. |
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Kim S. Cameron, Robert E. Quinn, Diagnosing and
Changing Organizational Culture : Based on the Competing Values Framework,
Prentice Hall, 1999
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practical book on culture for those who would change it. Includes a simple
and useful instruments for diagnosing current culture and management
competencies. |
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Terrence E. Deal, Allan A. Kennedy, Corporate Cultures, Perseus,
2000
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useful book on organizational culture, including Deal and Kennedy's famous
sociability/solidarity model. Good linkage to general cultural aspects of
tribes, heroes and rites and rituals. Originally published in 1982. |
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Charles Handy, Gods of Management: The
Changing Work of Organizations, Oxford University Press, 1996
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nice take on culture, casting it in the typology of ancient gods, from on of
the greatest gurus of modern management. |
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International culture
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Charles Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars, Riding the Waves of
Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business, McGraw-Hill,
1997
One of the classics of modern international cultural differences. Includes
details of research and results of survey that is the basis of Trompenaars'
cultural model. Update of the original by Trompenaars alone published in
1993. |
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Richard Lewis, When Cultures
Collide, Nicholas Brealey, 2000
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useful and detailed book about managing across cultures, including over 150
pages on intercultural management (a book in itself!) plus separate chapters
on characteristics of 44 different countries. |
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Terri Morrison, Wayne A. Conaway, George A. Borden, Kiss,
Bow, or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in Sixty Countries, Adams
Media Corporation, 1995
A thick book designed for the international traveller, with background and
bullet points on 60 countries around negotiating, meeting, entertaining,
gifts, dress and body language. |
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