Cultural Complexity in Organizations

Inherent Contrasts and Contradictions
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-7619-0575-2
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 679 g

The multiple perspectives through which culture is explored in this volume show that culture in organizational settings is more complex, pluralistic, diverse, and contradictory than previously acknowledged. Addressing culture at various levels including national, industrial, organizational, and suborganizational, Cultural Complexity in Organizations provides an extremely broad, yet concise, analysis representing the latest research. Some of the areas of focus are implicit managerial understandings and overt practices, the growth and decline of organizations with a focus on culture, managerial control strategies and the dynamics of subcultural formation, change, and temporary reconciliation, among others. Written by a multinational and multidisciplinary group of scholars, the contributions are based on case studies describing situations in an array of settings such as Samsung, a car plant in Slovenia, Hewlett-Packard, a Dutch amusement park, a U.S. software developer, and an airline (SAS), as well as examples from the not-for-profit sector. Using empirical data based on innovative and multi-method research approaches, Cultural Complexity in Organizations is an important reader that goes beyond description to make recommendations on how to better deal with cultural complexity in organizations. Recommended for students and professionals in organization studies, management, gender studies, sociology, and psychology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sackmann, Sonja

Sackmann, Sonja A.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Single and Multiple Cultures in International Cross-Cultural Management Research - Sonja A Sackman et al
An Overview
PART ONE: CULTURE WITH A FOCUS ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL
Discursive Contradiction of Tradition and Modernity in Korean Management Practices - Seungkwon Jang and Myung-Ho Chung
A Case of Samsung's New Management
Eastern Europe Meets West - Tatjana Globokar
An Empirical Study of French Management in a Slovenian Plant
A Perceptual Study of Turkish Managers' and Organizations' Characteristics - Yasemin Arbak et al
Contrasts and Contradictions
PART TWO: CULTURE WITH A FOCUS ON THE ORGANIZATIONAL LEVEL
West Coast Camelot - Terry Schumacher
The Rise and Fall of an Organizational Culture
Cultural Contrasts in a Democratic Non-Profit Organization - Thomas Samuel Eberle
The Case of a Swiss Reading Society
Telling Tales - Sierk Ybema
Contrasts and Commonalities within the Organization of an Amusement Park
Inside Hewlett-Packard - Patrick McGovern and Veronica Hope-Hailey
Corporate Culture and Bureaucratic Control
PART THREE: CULTURE WITH A FOCUS ON THE SUB-ORGANIZATION LEVEL
National Culture and Gender Diversity within One of the Universal Swiss Banks - Katrina Burrus
An Experiential Description of a Professional Woman Officer and President of the Women Managers' Association
Managerial Control Strategies and Sub-Cultural Processes - Diana Rosemary Sharpe
On the Shop Floor in a Japanese Manufacturing Organization in the UK
Discontinuous Technological Change as a Trigger for Temporary Reconciliation of Managerial Subcultures - Juha Laurila
A Case Study of a Finnish Paper Industry Company
Organizational Factors Influencing Homogeneity and Heterogeneity of Organizational Cultures - Bas A Koene, Christopher Boone and Joseph L Soeters
PART FOUR: ETHNICITY CROSS-CUTTING ORGANIZATIONAL BOUNDARIES
Ethnic Diversity in Organizations - Sjiera de Vries
A Dutch Experience
The Strategic Utilization of Ethnicity in Contemporary Organizations - Willem C J Koot
PART FIVE: SOCIAL IDENTITY AS A CRITICAL CONCEPT IN DEALING WITH COMPLEX CULTURAL SETTINGS
Cross-Cutting Identifications in Organizations - Helge Hernes
Organizational Identity as a `Crowded Category` - Peter Dahler-Larsen
A Case of Multiple and Quickly Shifting We-Typifications