I'm currently reading a good book on the subject:
Organizational Culture and Leadership
Edgar H. Schein
Jossey-Bass, 1992, 2nd. ed.
Contents:
Part One: What culture is and does
1. Defining organizational culture
2. Uncovering the levels of culture
3. Analyzing the cultures of two organziations
Part Two: The dimensions of culture
4. Surviving and adapting to external environments
5. Managing internal integration
6. Assumptions about reality, truth, time, and space
7. Assumptions about human nature, activity, and relationships
Part Three: How to study and interpret culture
8. Deciphering culture for insiders
9. Reporting about culture to outsiders
10. Ethical problems in studying organizational cultures
Part Four: The role of leadership in building culture
11. How leaders create organizational cultures
12. How founders and leaders embed and transmit culture: socialization
from a leadership perspective
13.Organizational midlife: Differentiation and the growth of subcultures
14. Management and information technology: two subcultures in collision?
Part Five: The evolution of culture and leadership
15. The dynamics of culture change and leadership in young organizations
16. The leader's role in midlife, mature, and declining organizations
17. Facing the complexities of culture change: A case study
Part Six: Learning Cultures and Learning Leaders
18. The learning culture: managing the contradictions of stability,
learning and change
19. The learning leader as culture manager
Happy reading!
Harold J. Crossman
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