Cultural Reflection in Management

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Cultural trend in management
• 1.1 The development of the cultural trend in management
• 2 Paradigm of functionalism in organizational culture
• 2.1 The functionalist understanding of culture in management
• 2.2 Elements of organisational culture
• 2.3 Models of organisational culture
• 2.4 One-dimensional typologies of organisational culture
• 1 Weak culture – strong culture
• 2 Positive culture – negative culture
• 3 Bureaucratic culture – pragmatic culture
• 4 Introvert culture – extrovert culture
• 5 Conservative culture – innovative culture
• 6 Hierarchical culture – egalitarian culture
• 7 Individualist culture – collectivist culture
• 2.5 Multidimensional typologies of organisational culture
• 2.6 A 3D model and typology of organisational culture
• 1 Hierarchy – equality
• 2 Individualism – community
• 3 A high tolerance for uncertainty – a low tolerance for uncertainty
• 2.7 Functions of organisational culture
• 2.8 Critical opinions of the functionalist approach to culture in management
• 3 Culture of society in management
• 3.1 Comparative cross-cultural studies
• 3.2 Significance of cultural circles
• 3.3 The cultural conditions of competitiveness
• 3.4 Convergence of cultures
• 3.5 Modern consumerist culture
• 4 Culture and organisational culture from the neoevolutionary perspective
• 4.1 Neoevolutionism in management science
• 4.2 Culture from the neoevolutionary perspective
• 4.3 Memes and culture
• 4.4 The evolutionary roots of organisational culture
• 4.5 Neoevolutionism and other paradigms in cultural research
• 5 The interpretative understanding of culture in management
• 5.1 A description of the interpretative-symbolic paradigm
• 5.2 Concepts of symbolic interactionism in management
• 1 Social constructivism
• 2 The organisational process understood as building a social agreement
• 3 The cognitive role of language
• 4 Entanglement in praxis
• 5 Management as a symbolic activity
• 6 Qualitative methodology of the IS paradigm
• 5.3 Interpretative vision of culture in management
• 5.4 Organisation identity and organisational culture
• 6 The radical vision of culture in management
• 6.1 Critical management studies
• 6.2 The critical understanding of organisational culture
• 6.3 Emancipation aims of cultural criticism
• 1 Democratisation of organisations
• 2 Rejection of violence through reflection of the culture
• 3 Methods which emancipate marginalised groups in organisations
• 4 Popularisation of emancipation culture
• 5 Anti-functionalism
• 6 Methodology of the critical research into culture
• 7 Critical methodological pluralism
• 8 Critical organisational culture
• 9 Development of humanist management projects through the radicalisation of methods
• 6.4 Limitations of the critical current in management
• 7 The cultural changeability of organisations
• 7.1 Cultural conditions of organisational changes
• 7.2 Functionalist changed in culture
• 7.3 Interpretative approach to cultural changes
• 7.4 Emancipatory cultural changes
• 7.5 The metaphorical research method in organisational culture
• Summary
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Series Page