Regarded as one of the most influential management books of all time, this fourth and completely updated edition of Edgar Schein's Organizational Culture and Leadership focuses on today's complex business realities and draws on a wide range of contemporary research to demonstrate the crucial role of leaders in applying the principles of culture to achieve their organizational goals.

Edgar Schein explores how leadership and culture are fundamentally intertwined, and reveals key findings about leadership and culture including:

• Leaders are entrepreneurs and the main architects of culture
• Once cultures are formed they influence what kind of leadership is possible
• If elements of the culture become dysfunctional, it is the leader's responsibility to do something to speed up culture change.

In addition, the book contains new information that reflects culture at different levels of analysis from national and ethnic macroculture to team-based microculture. This updated fourth edition contains five integral sections, necessary to ensuring the readers deepest understanding of cultural impact on an organizations successes and failures:

CLEARANCE NOTICE: The remaining Organizational Culture and Leadership books in stock will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Product Details

Retail Price: $45.00 PMB Price: $31.00
ISBN: 978-0470190609
Publication Date: Aug-10
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Author: Edgar H. Schein
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Pages:  464