Organizational Culture and Identity: Unity and Division at WorkOrganizational 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. |
Contents
Managers in Search of Culture | 9 |
A Forgotten History of Culture | 29 |
Academics in Search of Culture | 59 |
Culture Language and Representation | 81 |
Three Stories | 97 |
Northern District Health Authority | 99 |
Vulcan Industries | 127 |
The Moortown Permanent Building Society | 157 |
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Page 1 - Williams 1981, 1982), has asserted (1985, p. 87) that "culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language".