Edgar H. Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership, Fourth Edition. Jossey-Bass, 2010.
Referenced in: Leadership and Organizational Culture
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
Leaders create congregational/organizational cultures or corporate personalities, whether intentional or not. A part of transformational and empowering leadership is to be proactive in creating cultures that are mission enhancing and life-changing. Several sources in the resource guide on Church Identity underscore the importance of this for churches. This classic text in organizational psychology by Edgar Schein would be a good supplement. It explains the complex process whereby leaders create cultures, including insights on “culture embedding mechanisms,” or the activities to focus on in order for a new culture to emerge. The reading is dense and technical, but since “culture trumps everything,” it is important reading for those who take congregational leadership seriously.
Regarded as one of the most influential management books of all time, this fourth edition of Leadership and Organizational Culture transforms the abstract concept of culture into a tool that can be used to better shape the dynamics of organization and change. This updated edition focuses on today’s business realities. Edgar Schein draws on a wide range of contemporary research to redefine culture and demonstrate the crucial role leaders play in successfully applying the principles of culture to achieve their organizational goals.
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This edition updates Schein’s influential understanding of culture – what it is, how it is created, how it evolves, and how it can be changed – and lucidly demonstrates the crucial role leaders play in successfully applying the principles of culture to achieve their organizations’ goals and fulfill their missions. Schein shows how to identify, nurture, and shape the cultures of organizations in any stage of development, and presents critical new learnings and practices in the field, including additional work on subcultures. The result is a vital aid to understanding and practicing organizational effectiveness. —This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Edgar H. Schein is Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus and a senior lecturer at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is founding editor of the journal of the Society for Organizational Learning, and author of numerous books, including The Corporate Culture Survival Guide.
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