About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc., U. S
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780875896397ISBN:0875896391
Description: A good reading copy only. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. May have underlining or highlighting throughout. -, Hard Cover, Good / Good. read more
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Book shows wear to cover edges and spine. Highlighting in book. Corners bent/rounded. Cover may have folds or creases. Otherwise in good reading condition. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Moderate wear on Cover/Interior Pages. (W3) Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 448 p. Joint Publication in the Jossey-Bass Management Series and t. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Date Published: 1992-10-30
ISBN-13:9781555424879ISBN:1555424872
Description: Very good. Text is clean with no markings observed; some fading on jacket spine; binding tight; not a remainder; quick shipping. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Owner stamp inside front cover, minor wear, pages clean and corners sharp. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 448 p. Joint Publication in the Jossey-Bass Management Series and t. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. DJ has some wear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 418 p. Joint Publication in the Jossey-Bass Management Series and t. Audience: General/trade. Excellent customer service! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Date Published: 1996-12-05
ISBN-13:9780787903626ISBN:0787903620
Description: Very Good. Pages clean and unmarked. Light shelf wear. Great book for a reasonable and competitive price. Buy risk free and enjoy. I will ship promptly in a bubble wrap mailer. read more
Edition: Stated First Edition, Third Printing
Binding: Brown Orange Cloth
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780875896397ISBN:0875896391
Description: Very Good in Very Good Not Clipped No Price jacket. 9 1/4 X 6. Pages are firm, bright and clean. Binding firm and straight, sewn signatures. Boards, spine, edges and corner very good. Jacket in crystal-clear polyester protector sleeve. No apparent wear, faint top edge soiling. If needed for reference, research, analysis, application or just enjoyment, this is the one. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780875896397ISBN:0875896391
Description: New in new dust jacket. 358 p. Audience: General/trade. Library binding. New with very slight shelf wear. Very nice condition plus. read more
"This may be the preeminent book on organizational culture, by one of the pioneering scholars in the field. I read the first edition some twenty years ago, and in its third edition, it has not lost its relevance or practical utility for managers and scholars. Schein strengthens our understanding of culture by carefully exporing what it is, its genesis, how it adapts, evolves, and is transmitted, and how it can most effectively be changed. By focusing on leaders as creators, preservers, and change agents, Schein goes right to the heart of culture and its influence. Much that had previously been thought to operate independently is now convincingly shown to influence and be influenced by corporate culture. This would include such attributes of organizatons as reward systems, communication and conflict management, career pathing, power structures, and much else. This is a must read for anyone interested in the foundations of what makes an organization successful."
"The basic ideas about the development of culture, and leadership's role in cultural development were very interesting, but most of the book was very dry and hard to get through."
"Schein organizes the material within three Parts. Here's a brief excerpt from The Dimensions of Culture. "If culture consists of shared basic assumptions, we still need to specify: assumptions about what? The concept of organizational or occupational cultures reflects the ultimate problems that every group faces: dealing with its external environment...Culture is pervasive and ultimately embraces everything that a group is concerned about and must deal with. Beyond these external and internal problems, cultural assumptions reflect deeper issues about the nature of truth, time, space, human nature, and human relationships." (Page 85) Schein stresses the importance of determining with meticulous care what a given culture's shared assumptions are, and then subjecting each to rigorous scrutiny. One of several reasons why so many organizations struggle (with mixed results) to deal with their external environment is the fact that their perspective is limited, if not myopic.
Whatever organizational development these organizations achieve is by nature internal only and therefore self-limiting. Henry Chesbrough has much of value to say about open business models, those that "create value by leveraging many more ideas, due to their inclusion of a variety of external concepts. Open models can also enable greater value capture, by using a key asset, resource, or position not only in the company's own business model but also in other companies businesses.""
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