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On Studying Organizational Cultures
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Culture in Organization Theory
- Position within Organizational Theory
- Culture as a New Metaphor
- Culture as a New Approach
- Contribution to Organizational Theory
- Cultural Diversity
- Variable or Metaphor
- Integration, Differentiation and Ambiguity
- Rationalism, Functionalism and Symbolism
- Choice of Competing Perspectives
- Functionalism and Symbolism
- Empirical Field of Study
- Choice of Focus
- Empirical Material
- Chapter 2. A Functionalist Perspective
- The Functions of Organizational Culture
- The Functional Existence of Culture
- The Functional Explanation of Culture
- The Functions of Organizational Culture
- The Levels of Culture
- Three Levels of Culture
- Internal Relations between the Levels of Culture
- The Cultural Paradigm
- Relations between Cultural Levels and their Functions
- Sorting out Cultural Data
- The Specific Functions of Organizational Culture
- A Functionalist Analytical Model: The Funnel
- Subcultures in Organizations
- A Clinical versus Ethnographic Method
- Chapter 3. Functionalist Diagnosis of Organizational Culture
- Artifacts and Values in a Department
- The Artifact Level: A Stratified Paper Pyramid
- The Value Level: Means
- The Value Level: Power and Status
- Summary of the Value Level
- Basic Assumptions in the Department
- The Method of the Analysis of Basic Assumptions
- Nobody Does it Better than We Do!
- The Members of the Organization are at the Center!
- This Belongs to Us!
- The Organization’s Members are Able and Ready to Passively Adapt Themselves!
- There is only One Truth, which Can Be Discovered from Within
- The Organization Members Constitute a Family which Works
- The Cultural Paradigm
- The Core of the Cultural Paradigm
- Consistency and Inconsistency of the Cultural Paradigm
- Tracing Backwards from Basic Assumptions
- Relations between Basic Assumptions and Values
- Inconsistency between Values and Basic Assumptions
- Consistency between Values and Basic Assumptions
- Unclarity between Values and Basic Assumptions
- A Mixed Culture
- The Effects of Artifacts in Relation to Values and Basic Assumptions
- Consequences for the Functionalist Funnel Model
- The Diagnosis of Organizational Culture
- Chapter 4. A Symbolic Perspective
- Symbolism
- The Creation of Meaning
- Symbols: The Expression of Meaning
- Symbols in a Semiotic Context
- The Multidimensional Reality
- Culture as System
- A Multiplicity of Interpretations
- Webs of Meaning
- Symbols
- Physical Symbols: Objects
- Behavioral Symbols: Rituals
- Verbal Symbols: Myths, Sagas and Stories
- Patterns between Symbols
- World View and Ethos
- Metaphors and Metonyms
- The Actant Model
- Relations among Key Symbolic Expressions
- Key Symbolic Expressions
- Associative Relations between Symbolic Expressions
- A Methodological Model for Interpretation
- The Spiral
- Thick Description
- Summary
- Chapter 5. A Symbolic Interpretation of Culture
- Organizational Culture in a Department
- Meeting Rituals
- A Further Cultural Interpretation
- Myths and Tradition
- Metaphors: House, System or Machine
- A Spiral of the Department
- Criss-crossing the Webs of Culture
- Organizational Culture in a Directorate
- ‘Process’ as Dominant Metaphor
- ‘Experimenters’ and ‘Seedlings’
- ‘Natural Cycle’ in the Directorate
- The A-team and the B-team
- Myths about Labelling
- A Cultural Pattern: A Conceptual Map
- A Spiral of the Directorate
- Criss-crossing the Webs of Culture
- Cultural Interfaces between the Department and the Directorate
- Culture and Organizational Environments
- Pamphlet Rituals: A Case Story
- Ritualized Interface between Department and Directorate
- The Ritual in the Two Organizational Cultures
- The Study of Cultural Interfaces
- Using the Spiral in the Interpretation of Culture
- How to Reach an Overall Cultural Interpretation
- The Methodological Principles of Symbolism
- An Ongoing Process of Interpretation
- Chapter 6. Comparison between Cultural Perspectives
- Differences between the Two Perspectives
- Theoretical and Methodological Differences
- Differences in Empirical Application
- Summary
- Similarities between the Two Perspectives
- Culture as Pattern
- Culture as Relations between Depth and Manifestations
- Summary
- Appendix 1. Organizational Diagrammes
- Appendix 2. Interviews and Observation Data
- References
- Index