Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations: Beyond the Corporate ContextRobert T. Carter SAGE Publications, 1999 M12 15 - 312 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
Chapter 1 Perspectives on Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations | 3 |
Chapter 2 National Culture and the New Corporate Language for Race Relations | 19 |
Chapter 3 Whiting Out Social Justice | 35 |
Theories for Practice | 51 |
Organizational Influences on the Achievement of Students of Color | 69 |
Part II Organizational and Institutional Settings | 87 |
Chapter 6 Families in Their Cultural and Multisystemic Contexts | 89 |
Chapter 7 Teachers as MultiCultural Agents in Schools | 101 |
Part III Interventions and Applications for Training | 179 |
A Critical Assessment of Ambivalence and Denial in Organizational Leaders Responses to Diversity | 181 |
Chapter 13 Enhancing Diversity Climate in Community Organizations | 193 |
Standpoint Learnings for Organizational Consulting | 211 |
Chapter 15 Building Institutional Capacity to Address Cultural Differences | 229 |
Summary and Conclusions | 241 |
References | 247 |
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Chapter 8 Cultural Dynamics and Issues in Higher Education | 115 |
The Influence of Culture on the Development of Theory and Practice | 131 |
The Fallacy of Neutral Universalism in Medicine | 147 |
That is Not Good | 165 |
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About the Editor | 293 |
About the Contributing Authors | 294 |
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