Organizational culture

About: Organizational culture is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 31507 publications have been published within this topic receiving 926787 citations. The topic is also known as: corporate culture & organisational culture.

Leadership style and incentives

Abstract: We study the relationship between a firm's environment and its optimal leadership style We use a model in which contracts between the firm and managers are incomplete so that providing incentives to subordinates is not straightforward Leadership style, whether based on organizational culture or on the personality of the leader, then affects the incentive contracts that can be offered to subordinates We show that leaders who empathize with their employees adopt a participatory style and that shareholders gain from appointing such leaders when the firm has the potential for exploiting numerous innovative ideas By contrast, when the environment is poor in new ideas, shareholders benefit from hiring a more selfish ie, more profit maximizing leader whose style is more autocratic

Friendship Patterns and Culture: The Control of Organizational Diversity

Abstract: Organizational culture is often described as a management control device, but this view obscures the importance of informal social interactions for the emergence and modification of culture. We elicited seven cultural dimensions used by employees to predict and make sense of the behavior patterns of others in an entrepreneurial firm. Forty-seven key employees rated each other on these dimensions. Consistent with predictions, friends, relative to nonfriends, made similar attributions about fellow employees across the seven dimensions. The pattern of results remained significant even controlling for demographic and positional similarities. Further, the more people disagreed with their friends, the more they tended to be dissatisfied with their jobs. The control of organizational diversity may be as much an interpersonal initiative as it is a prerogative of management manipulation.

Good News: Social Ethics and the Press

Abstract: Mass media ethics and the classical liberal ideal of the autonomous individual are historically linked and professionally dominant-yet the authors of this work feel this is intrisically flawed. They show how recent research in philosophy and social science-together with a longer tradition in theological inquiry-insist that community, mutuality, and relationship are fundamental to a full concept of personhood. The authors argue that "persons-in-community" provides a more defensible grounding for journalists' professional moral decison-making in crucial areas such as truthtelling, privacy, organizational culture, and balanced coverage. With numerous examples drawn from life as well as from theory, this book will interest journalists, editors, and professionals in media management as well as students and scholars of media ethics, reporting, and media law.

Towards a definitive model of the corporate identity management process

Abstract: Various writers have developed conceptual models of corporate image formation and corporate identity management. These models reflect the way in which corporate identity and corporate image have been conceptualised over the past three decades. This paper explores the significance of the various models as a rich foundation for the conceptual thinking on corporate identity, and draws from these models a more definitive model of the corporate identity management process. The model developed reflects current thinking, which places greater emphasis on organizational culture, corporate strategy, corporate communication and integrated communication. The implications for managers and consultants are discussed. A significant implication for both is that the increase in complexity of the model indicates that more variables need to be systematically taken into account when planning a corporate identity program.