Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations: Beyond the Corporate ContextRobert T. Carter SAGE, 2000 - 297 pages Analyzing how unexamined cultural patterns influence an organization's culture, this book provides conceptual models and ideas about how to build practical approaches to organizational interventions. The contributors focus on the broad issues such as how organizational leaders shape and influence the agenda surrounding culture; cover institutional and organizational issues in corporate, educational, mental health, and service organizations; and discuss various organizational intervention strategies and approaches. |
Contents
National Culture and the New Corporate Language for Race Relations | 19 |
Whiting Out Social Justice | 35 |
Organizational Influences on | 69 |
Families in Their Cultural and Multisystemic Contexts | 89 |
Cultural Dynamics and Issues in Higher Education | 115 |
The Influence of Culture on the Development | 131 |
The Fallacy of Neutral Universalism in Medicine | 147 |
That is Not Good | 165 |
Enhancing Diversity Climate in Community Organization | 193 |
Standpoint | 211 |
Building Institutional Capacity to Address Cultural Differences | 229 |
Summary and Conclusions | 241 |
References | 247 |
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About the Editor 293 | |
A Critical Assessment of Ambivalence and Denial | 181 |
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