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Organizational Culture and Identity Martin Parker

Organizational Culture and Identity By Martin Parker

Organizational Culture and Identity by Martin Parker


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Summary

`This provides a well-written critique of the origins and strategic uses of the concept of organizational culture. It provides a useful coverage and critique of the existing literature, demonstrating the need for the reflexive consideration of the way in which this concept is used in management and academia' - Leadership and Organizational Development Journal

Organizational Culture and Identity Summary

Organizational Culture and Identity: Unity and Division at Work by Martin Parker

Organizational Culture and Identity discusses the literature concerned with culture in organizations and explains why the term has been invoked with such enthusiasm. Martin Parker presents further ways of thinking about organizations and culture which suggest that organizational cultures should be seen as `fragmented unities' in which members identify themselves as collective at some times and divided at others.

Organizational Culture and Identity Reviews

`Concerned with organizational culture, the central tenent of this book is that culture is not a harmoniously agreed principle, but a fragmented unity, where members are simultaneously both fragmented and unified.... the book moves on to offer detailed examples of the fragmentary nature of organizational culture through the analysis of ethnographic studies undertaken by the author within three differing industries; a health authority, small manufacturing foundry and a building society, with chapers devoted to each.... The introductory theory is very well illustrated...well signposted....[A]ppealing in its theoretical perspective to students of management & organizational studies, ...its straightforward clarity will appeal to undergraduate sociology students' - Sociology

About Martin Parker

Martin Parker is a Professor of Culture and Organization at the School of Management, Leicester University

Table of Contents

Introduction PART ONE: HISTORIES AND THEORIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Managers in Search of Culture A Forgotten History of `Culture' Academics in Search of Culture Culture, Language and Representation PART TWO: THREE STORIES Northern District Health Authority Vulcan Industries Ltd The Moortown Permanent Building Society PART THREE: CULTURES AND IDENTIFICATIONS Three Organizations Together and Apart Culture, Theory and Politics

Additional information

GOR003248702
9780761952435
0761952438
Organizational Culture and Identity: Unity and Division at Work by Martin Parker
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
19991124
272
N/A
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