Cultural Complexity in Organizations Inherent Contrasts and Contradictions [Paperback]

The multiple-cultures perspective advocated in this book suggests that culture in organizational settings is more complex, pluralistic, diverse and contradictory than previously acknowledged. Contributors address culture at various levels including national, industrial and organizational. Issues covered include: implicit managerial understandings and overt practices; the growth and decline of organizations with a focus on culture, managerial control strategies and subculture formation; change and temporary reconciliation; factors that influence homogeneity and heterogeneity and that contribute to a strong corporate culture; and issues of gender, ethnicity and social and organizational identity as concepts that may foster a better understandThe multiple-cultures perspective advocated in this book suggests that culture in organizational settings is more complex, pluralistic, diverse and contradictory than previously acknowledged. Contributors address culture at various levels including national, industrial and organizational. Issues covered include: implicit managerial understandings and overt practices; the growth and decline of organizations with a focus on culture, managerial control strategies and subculture formation; change and temporary reconciliation; factors that influence homogeneity and heterogeneity and that contribute to a strong corporate culture; and issues of gender, ethnicity and social and organizational identity as concepts that may foster a better understandSingle 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 Pls6