Analyzing Organization Cultures

Consultants argue that leaders can quickly alter organization cultures to improve performance, while field researchers have described situations where leaders could do little. This book presents five field studies of team, service, and sales cultures, uncovering eight paradoxical situations and documenting evidence of employee informal organization and managerial operating cultures. It offers a comparative approach to analyzing organizational culture and is of interest to researchers, academics, and students.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 280 pages
\n Publication date: 29 April 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Certain consultants contend that leaders can swiftly, effortlessly, and significantly transform their organization cultures to enhance performance. Conversely, field researchers have documented instances where leaders were limited in their ability to alter the existing organizational culture. Between these polar extremes, a spectrum of varying degrees of leader influence exists, and organizations occupy diverse positions along this continuum.

This book presents five field studies that explore team, service, and sales cultures, encompassing both anticipated and unexpected outcomes. In numerous instances, leaders believed that expressing employee appreciation could compensate for offering below-market average wages. Several leadership groups thrived by implementing cost cuts or boosting sales. Conversely, those at the bottom often faced increased workload and heightened stress. Eight paradoxical situations were identified, and the interpretations of the participants were influenced by their personal work histories and the history of their current organization. In each case, evidence of employee informal organization and managerial operating cultures was documented.

Analyzing Organization Cultures employs a comprehensive case study approach to analyze organizational culture. It provides an up-to-date overview of the field and appeals to researchers, academics, and students specializing in organizational studies, management history, human resource management, and organizational theory.

\n Weight: 554g\n
Dimension: 226 x 239 x 24 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367518028\n \n