Organizational Culture: Books

Offering lists of suggestions for improving management skills and competencies, this book provides a framework, a sense-making tool, a set of systematic steps, and a methodology for helping managers and their organizations carefully analyze and alter their fundamental culture.

Regarded as one of the most influential management books of all time, this resource draws on a wide range of contemporary research to redefine culture and demonstrate the crucial role leaders play in successfully applying the principles of culture to achieve their organizational goals.

Arguing that we are all trapped by our own behaviors, this book examines how traps can begin to be changed and reduced during relatively straightforward interventions that emphasize social and cognitive skills.

For any manager or executive committed to achieving business goals through effective strategic partnership, this book gathers successes of some of the world's leading companies to deliver a tool kit for shaping a partnering culture.

Subtitle: A practical guide to leading organizational change and renewal.
Why do leading firms often lose their innovative edge, and how can they retain it?

As the world is becoming more complex and global, the issues of corporate culture and subculture are more relevant to leadership and organizational performance. This book shows how the management of cultural issues now involves the alignment of national, corporate, and occupational cultures.

This book links the theoretical foundation of the “lessons learned” approach with current tools and evidence-based research in support of organizational development. Outlining best practices and emerging research in organizational learning, this publication is ideal for project managers, academicians, researchers, and upper-level students looking to implement these processes into their project management cycle, particularly in the risk management and quality control processes.
Chapter 14 is titled: The role of organizational culture in the success of changing behavior.

Examining culture in organizations, Martin Parker discusses its influences on individuals and its uses as a management tool. He presents organisational cultures as 'fragmented unities' in which members feel both part of a collective and individual.