Stefan Kühl

Influencing Organizational Culture (eBook, ePUB)

A Very Brief Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the management discourse few words are thrown about more carelessly than 'organizational culture'. While the term is usually defined too broadly-including such phenomena as assumptions, values, traditions, articles of faith, myths and artifacts-this book applies a far more narrow concept. Organizational culture, or the informal structure of an organization, is a term used to describe the behavioral expectations in an organization that have not been decided on in a formal way but that evolved by means of repetition and imitation. This book shows how this narrow definition makes it possible to more precisely observe and understand an organization's culture and its changes. Management's only way for influencing organizational culture-and this may sound paradoxical at first-is to change the organization's formal structure as for example its incentive schemes, goal-setting processes, strategic directions or hierarchy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Metaplan
• Seitenzahl: 74
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781732386150
• Artikelnr.: 53466960

Autorenporträt

Stefan Kühl is a sociologist at Bielefeld University and an organizational consultant at Metaplan. His most recent publications are "Organisationen im Labor? Grenzen der Simulation von Formalität in gruppendynamischen Trainings" (Springer VS 2024) and "Führung und Gefolgschaft. Management im Nationalsozialismus und in der Demokratie" (Suhrkamp 2025). Mascha Nolte is a sociologist at Bielefeld University. Her most recent publications are "Visualisierung und Interaktion. Interaktionssoziologische Perspektiven auf die Methode der visualisierten Diskussionsführung" (Springer VS 2022) and "Workshops. Zu einer besonderen Form der Interaktion in Organisationen" (Springer VS 2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- Organizational Culture What Is It About?.- The Temptations and Limits of an Instrumental-Rational Approach.- Leverage for Influencing Organizational Culture.- Consequences for Influencing Organizational Cultures.- Bibliography.