Description
Organizational Culture and Identity discusses the literature concerned with culture in organizations and explains why the term has been invoked with such enthusiasm. Martin Parker presents further ways of thinking about organizations and culture which suggest that organizational cultures should be seen as `fragmented unities’ in which members identify themselves as collective at some times and divided at others. Martin Parker is a Professor of Culture and Organization at the School of Management, Leicester University Introduction PART ONE: HISTORIES AND THEORIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Managers in Search of Culture A Forgotten History of `Culture’ Academics in Search of Culture Culture, Language and Representation PART TWO: THREE STORIES Northern District Health Authority Vulcan Industries Ltd The Moortown Permanent Building Society PART THREE: CULTURES AND IDENTIFICATIONS Three Organizations Together and Apart Culture, Theory and Politics
