Organisational Culture: Concept, Context, and Measurement (in Two Volumes)

By Elizabeth Kummerow and Neil Kirby

Organisational Culture: Concept, Context and Measurement (In Two Volumes) aims to encourage an agenda for organisational culture research that gives a renewed emphasis to methodological issues. In pursuit of this aim, consideration is given to both conceptual questions and questions of measurement. In Volume I of the book, the main focus is on the concept of organisational culture. Based on an analysis and critique of existing treatments, as well as a comparison of organisational culture with a number of closely related concepts, consideration is given to how the concept might usefully be elaborated and further refined. In Volume II of the book, the focus is on methodological issues. Drawing on the findings of a series of empirical studies conducted over a number of years, consideration is given to what would be required to develop a measure for organisational culture that is practically useful and also capable of accessing culture at its deepest, and arguably most influential yet most elusive, level. In particular, an approach is advocated that seeks to contextualise organisational culture, in terms of various time and experience domains, and that also promotes the use of attributions analysis as a means whereby to further understand culture at this level.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9812837825
• ISBN13: 9789812837820
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 1008 Pages
• Weight: 4.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 6.9" x 10.1"