Understanding Organizational Culture

<strong>Understanding Organizational Culture</strong> is a most timely and comprehensive book.And Mats Alvesson is surely one of our most intrepid and intellect... » 

Understanding Organizational Culture is a most timely and comprehensive book.And Mats Alvesson is surely one of our most intrepid and intellectually astuteauthors writing on this topic. This is a lively enthusiastic text that coversa good deal of territory looking at a variety of contemporary organizationalcultures. It manages to convey just why organizational culture studies continueto grow in number and quality. The book is fascinating usefully provocativeand of considerable relevance to understanding the source of so much of ourworkaday pleasures and frustrations John Van Maanen Professor ofOrganization Studies Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe concept of culture is a key issue within management and organizationstudies. Understanding Organizational Culture provides a useful andcomprehensive guide to understanding organizational culture from a range ofangles contexts and sectors. The book answers questions of definitionexplores alternative perspectives and expands on substantive issues such asleadership and change before discussing key issues of research and providinga new framework for this topic.Mats Alvesson synthesizes for students the advances in the field oforganizational culture drawing upon the range of relevant literature withinOrganization Studies. The author also uses examples to develop and illustrateideas on how cultural thinking can be used in managerial and nonmanagerialorganizational theory and theorysupported practice.Understanding Organizational Culture provides great breadth within a textbookapproach covering a wide spectrum of management and organization while at thesame time developing a new theoretical approach to organizational culture. Itwill be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses inManagement and Organization Studies particularly key for modules inOrganizational Behaviour Organizational Theory and on MBA programmes. It isalso relevant to students and academics in sociology and psychology. «