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Software Engineer Last Updated on December 29, 2022.
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Who Should Read This Book
If your job hinges on understanding and navigating a complex culture and group behaviour, and you want to achieve Operational Excellence, this is the book for you.
Synopsis
In this publication, Professor Edgar Schein expands on his original 1999 paper on Organisational Culture into a fascinating book. The latter discusses the emergence, dynamics, and transformation of Organisational Culture and how it brings about the organization’s behaviour, evolution, and survival.
The book has 5 editions. The present review discusses the 3rd edition.
The book is regarded as one of the most influential book on business management and organisational culture.
Culture is a very abstract thing and Schein’s monumental work was to turn it into something tangible, measurable, and decipherable.
The book has 19 chapters divided into three parts:
- Part 1: Organisational Culture and Leadership Defined
- Part 2: The Dimensions of Culture
- Part 3: The Leadership Role in Culture Building, Embedding, and Evolving
Part one discusses the emergence of culture in a group, its tangible and observable aspects, and two case examples of different cultures to illustrate the way cultures guide the behaviour of organizations.
The second part of the book breaks down the creational forces of an organization’s culture: the internal integration pressures and the external adaptions ones. This part, in my opinion, was the most interesting as it explains the forces behind the emergence and shaping of organisational culture.
The third and final part talks about leadership and its influence on the direction that a culture takes, from emergence to transmission and all the way through transformation and change.
Chapter 18 is particularly interesting as it presents a case study of a major organization going through a cultural transformation.
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Hardcover available
Audio CD | Audible
ISBN-13: 9780787968458
ISBN-10: 0787968455
17.53 x 2.54 x 23.37 cm
437 pages
Themes
- Organisational Culture
- Leadership
- Cultural Transformation
- Business Management
- Organisational Management
- Change Management
- Cultural Emergence and Development
- Resistance to Change
- Management Styles
- Cultural Diversity
- Group Formation
- Group Behaviour
- Philosophical Aspects of Group Interactions
- Human Systems
- Organisational Learning
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From LinkedIn:
Edgar Henry Schein (born March 5, 1928), a former professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has made a notable mark on the field of organisational development in many areas, including career development, group process consultation, and organisational culture. He is the son of former University of Chicago professor Marcel Schein.
Publications
- Coercive Persuasion: A socio-psychological analysis of the “brainwashing” of American civilian prisoners by the Chinese Communists (1961) ISBN 0-393-00613-1
- Professional Education: Some New Directions (1972) ISBN 0-07-010042-X
- Career Dynamics (1978) ISBN 0-201-06834-6
- Organisational Psychology, first published 1965, second edition 1970, third edition 1980 ISBN 0-13-641332-3 [5]
- The Clinical Perspective in Field Work (1987) ISBN 0-8039-2975-7
- The Art of Managing Human Resources (Editor, 1987) ISBN 0-19-504882-2
- Strategic Pragmatism: The Culture of Singapore’s Economic Development Board (1996) ISBN 0-262-19367-1
- Process Consultation Revisited (1999) ISBN 0-201-34596-X
- DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation (with Peter S. DeLisi, Paul J. Kampas, and Michael M. Sonduck, 2004), Berrett-Koehler Publishers; ISBN 9781576753057.
- Procesadvisering (2005) ISBN 90-5261-531-4
- The Corporate Culture Survival Guide, 2nd Edition (2009) ISBN 978-0-470-29371-3
- Organisational Culture and Leadership, 4th Edition (2010) ISBN 978-0-470-18586-5
- Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help (2011), Berrett-Koehler Publishers; ISBN 9781605098562.
- Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling (2013), Berrett-Koehler Publishers; ISBN 9781609949815.
- Career Anchors, 4th Edition with J. VanMaanen (2013) ISBN 978-1-118-45575-3
- Organisational Psychology Then and Now: Some Observations. Annual Review of Organisational Psychology and Organisational Behavior, Vol. 2. (2015)