Understanding Organizational Culture by Mats Alvesson (English) Paperback Book

Description: Understanding Organizational Culture by Mats Alvesson The new edition of this groundbreaking text in Organizational Studies has been revised and updated to keep apace with developments within Organizational Culture. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description With his usual engaging and inimitable style, Mats Alvesson takes the reader on a riveting journey through the diverse ways in which culture itself can be understood and how these powerfully inform organizational life. - Blake E. Ashforth, Arizona State University Understanding Organizational Culture comunicates complex ideas in a manner that will illuminate for those who are less familiar with the concepts discussed, as well as providing a depth and critique of interest to those familiar with the topics. - Claire Valentin, The University of Edinburgh Unlike prescriptive books about organizations, Understanding Organizational Culture challenges and provokes the reader to think critically. It provides an insight into organizational culture, aided by numerous empirical illustrations from ethnographic studies that develop and illustrate how cultural thinking can be used in managerial and non-managerial organizational theory and practice. Mats Alvesson answers questions of definition, explores alternative perspectives and exands on substantive issues, before discussing key issues of research and developing his framework. Further more, the advances in the field of organizational culture are synthesized for the reader by drawing upon the range of relevant literature within organization studies. Understanding Organizational Culture provides great breadth within a textbook approach - covering a wide spectrum of management and organization while at the same time developing a new theoretical approach to organizational culture. The new edition contains improved pedagogy and expanded coverage of topics such as identity and organizational change. It is essential reading for students taking undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Organizational Behaviour and Organizational Theory on Management and Organization Studies programmes, including MBA. Author Biography Mats Alvesson is Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bath, and also affiliated with Lund University, Stockholm School of Economics and Bayes Business School, City, University of London. Table of Contents The Concept of Organizational CultureOrganizational Culture as Metaphor and Metaphors for CultureOrganizational Culture and IdentityOrganizational Culture and PerformanceOrganizational Culture, Strategy and MarketingOrganizational Culture and LeadershipWork and Multiple Levels of CultureAmbiguity of CultureCulture as Constraint: An Emancipatory ApproachCultural ChangeConclusions Review ′Organizational culture remains absolutely central to any understanding of how organizations actually work. With his usual engaging and inimitable style, Mats Alvesson takes the reader on a riveting journey through the diverse ways in which culture itself can be understood and how these powerfully inform organizational life′ - Blake E. Ashforth W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University′Understanding Organizational Culture manages to communicate complex for those who are less familiar with the concepts discussed, as well as providing a depth and critique of interest to those already familiar with the topics. It is critical without being patronising, dismissive, or jargonistic, and acknowledges the challenges of practice′ - Claire Valentin The University of Edinburgh, UK Review Quote Organizational culture remains absolutely central to any understanding of how organizations actually work. With his usual engaging and inimitable style, Mats Alvesson takes the reader on a riveting journey through the diverse ways in which culture itself can be understood and how these powerfully inform organizational life - Blake E. AshforthW.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University Understanding Organizational Culture manages to communicate complex for those who are less familiar with the concepts discussed, as well as providing a depth and critique of interest to those already familiar with the topics. It is critical without being patronising, dismissive, or jargonistic, and acknowledges the challenges of practice - Claire ValentinThe University of Edinburgh, UK Details ISBN0857025589 Author Mats Alvesson Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0857025589 ISBN-13 9780857025586 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Replaces 9780761970064 Birth 1956 DEWEY 302.35 Year 2012 Media Book Pages 248 Language English Publication Date 2012-11-16 Residence SW Affiliation Lund University, Sweden Short Title UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONA-2E Illustrations Yes UK Release Date 2012-11-16 NZ Release Date 2012-11-16 Edition Description 2nd Revised edition Alternative 9780857025579 Audience Undergraduate Publisher Sage Publications Ltd Imprint Sage Publications Ltd AU Release Date 2012-11-15 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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