Organizational Culture Perspective Research Articles

Analyzing Administrative Experiences: Feminist, Labor, and Organizational Culture Perspectives

Analyzing Administrative Experiences: Feminist, Labor, and Organizational Culture Perspectives

Developing Leadership in the Third Age: An Ethnographic Study of Leadership in a Seniors' Center

As the population ages, there is increasing interest in the role of senior volunteers in delivering social service, leisure, and educational programs to their peers. In this regard seniors'centers have become a focus for research in the United States and Canada The question this study addresses is, What motivates seniors to take on leadership roles in the groups and centers to which they belong? We know leadership training is a factor, but what other organizational influences may either inhibit or encourage participation? To address these questions, the study assumes an organizational culture perspective and explores organizational leadership in a seniors' center in western Canada In the tradition of ethnographic research, methods include document analyses, participant observations, iterative interviews, and focus group discussions. Results suggestfactors influencing emergent leadership include assumptions about (1) the nature of retirement, (2) the needs and abilities of seniors, (3) power and influence, and (4) leadership. Leadership training and a style of empowering professional leadership are offered as means to overcome common assumptions that serve as barriers to the emergence of seniors as leaders.

Relating Behavior Analysis to the Organizational Culture Concept and Perspective

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Organisational Culture and Human Service Organisations: A Case Application

In this paper the use of an organisational culture perspective to understand human service organisations is explored. A case study is presented to illustrate the organisational culture perspective in the human service organisation. The case presented demonstrates problems which can occur when organisational culture is not managed effectively.

The cultural lens: Bringing utilization into focus

AbstractThe uses of evaluation must be understood from an organizational culture perspective. A case is made for grounding evaluation use within a cultural framework.

Sources and Configurations of Institutional Denial

In institutional settings, a variety of cultural, organizational, and personal factors influence processing of information so as to deny the existence or severity of chemical abuse, and responsibilities for implementing a response. Models from cognitive social psychology and ethnography and the organizational culture perspective are synthesized in an explication of "institutional denial." The varieties and ambiguities of "maps" of chemical use allow personnel to construct self-justifying accounts. The configuration of institutional subcultures includes inter-related pockets of denial with halo effects on others.

The organizational culture perspective. J. Steven Ott, Brooks/Cole Publishing, Pacific Grove, CA 1989

The organizational culture perspective. J. Steven Ott, Brooks/Cole Publishing, Pacific Grove, CA 1989

Understanding Organizations: The Poetic Mode

As a system of understanding reality, the organizational culture and symbolism perspective is similar to Romanticism. Both movements arose out of the recognition of the inadequacies of rationalism, and both attempt to chart areas of the human experience through the imagination in terms of metaphors, symbols, and myths. A comparison of the two, therefore, serves to explain the rise of the cultural and symbolic perspective in organizational studies and its theoretical basis. Further, the comparison at once suggests the potential of the symbolist perspective as well as its problems, especially relativism and the love of distance, while indicating how that perspective may evolve as a total system.

When Cultures Collide: The Anatomy of a Merger

An extended case study of a recent merger between two mutual savings banks is studied from the perspective of organizational culture. Data on organizational culture and organizational climate are analyzed from pre- and post-merger interviews, observations, archival information, and survey questionnaires. Results suggest that even within the same industry, there are major difficulties in trying to merge two different though viable organizational cultures.