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Studying Organizational Cultures Through Rites and Ceremonials

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In this paper, a typology of rites and ceremonials is presented and the implications of cultural studies for research and practice are discussed. But the focus of these typologies often focuses on discrete cultural forms and fails to place phenomena studied within an overarching conception of culture.
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Studies of organizational culture often focus on discrete cultural forms and fail to place phenomena studied within an overarching conception of culture. Overlap and confusion in terminology occur across studies. To alleviate these problems, this paper offers distinguishing definitions and advocates studying rites and ceremonials, which consolidate multiple cultural forms. The paper also presents, illustrates, and discusses a typology of rites and ceremonials and examines the implications of cultural studies for research and practice.

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People and organizational culture: a profile comparison approach to assessing person-organization fit

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and validated an instrument for assessing person-organization fit, the Organizational Culture Profile (OCP), which was used to assess the dimensionality of individual preferences for organizational cultures and the existence of these cultures are interpretable.
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Identification in Organizations: An Examination of Four Fundamental Questions

TL;DR: A review of the literature on identification in organizations can be found in this article, where the authors outline a continuum from narrow to broad formulations and differentiates situated identification from deep identification and organizational identification from organizational commitment.
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Toward a theory of organizational culture and effectiveness.

TL;DR: In this paper, Daft et al. developed a model of organizational culture and effectiveness based on four traits of organizational cultures; involvement, consistency, adaptability, and mission, and found that these characteristics are positively related to perceptions of performance as well as to objective measures such as return on assets and sales growth.
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Emotion in the Workplace: A Reappraisal

TL;DR: The authors argue that emotionality and rationality are interpenetrated, emotions are an integral and inseparable part of organizational life, and emotions are often functional for the organization, which is illustrated by applications to motivation, leadership, and group dynamics.
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A Multiple-Layer Model of Market-Oriented Organizational Culture: Measurement Issues and Performance Outcomes

TL;DR: In this article, a multilayer model of market-oriented organizational culture is developed, which draws an explicit distinction among values that support market orientation, norms for market orientation and artifacts indicating high and low market orientation.
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Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

TL;DR: Many formal organizational structures arise as reflections of rationalized institutional rules as discussed by the authors, and the elaboration of such rules in modern states and societies accounts in part for the expansion and i...
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The Interpretation of Cultures

TL;DR: The INTERPRETATION OF CULTURES CLIFFORD GEERTZ Books files are available at the online library of the University of Southern California as mentioned in this paper, where they can be used to find any kind of Books for reading.
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In Search of Excellence

TL;DR: The CFA Association of Pakistan is such a platform and as members, your hand in organizing and promoting the society's activities can make all the difference: scholarships, university outreach programs, analyst certification programs, implementing global performance standards as discussed by the authors.
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A social information processing approach to job attitudes and task design.

TL;DR: The social information processing perspective emphasizes the effects of context and the consequences of past choices, rather than individual predispositions and rational decision-making processes, to explain job attitudes.
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