Organizational Culture and Leadership 4th Edition

by Edgar H. Schein (Author)

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Regarded as one of the most influential management books of all time, this fourth edition of Leadership and Organizational Culture transforms the abstract concept of culture into a tool that can be used to better shape the dynamics of organization and change. This updated edition focuses on today's business realities. Edgar Schein draws on a wide range of contemporary research to redefine culture and demonstrate the crucial role leaders play in successfully applying the principles of culture to achieve their organizational goals.

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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.

Praise for Prior Editions of Organizational Culture and Leadership

"Worth reading again and again and again."
—Booklist

"An organizational development pioneer uses an anthropological approach to address a leader's role in shaping group and organizational dynamics."
—Knowledge Management

"[Schein] is, to use an overworked word, a guru, the recognized expert in the field."
—Inside Business

About the Author

Edgar H. Schein is Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of numerous books, including Process Consultation Revisited, The Corporate Culture Survival Guide, Career Anchors, and most recently, Helping: How to Offer, Give and Receive Help.

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Publisher : Jossey-Bass; 4th edition (August 16, 2010)
Language : English
Paperback : 464 pages
ISBN-10 : 0470190604
ISBN-13 : 978-0470190609
Item Weight : 1.46 pounds
Dimensions : 6.8 x 1.5 x 9.1 inches

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Orgnizational Culture in a lot of depth

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2014

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"Organizational Culture and Leadership" is perhaps the most in-depth work on the subject of organizational culture. It is the more academic and more in-depth version of the Corporate Culture Survival Guide by the same author. The book is about 400 pages and consists of five parts.

Part one provides the basics of the rest of the book. It defines organizational culture and other types of culture. It also describes Schein's three levels in which organizational culture is represented in organizations: artifacts, believes and values, assumptions. It also introduces the two case studies that are used throughout the book: DEC and Ciba-Geigy.

Part two explores different dimensions of culture. It doesn't limit itself to organizational culture but also to the different assumptions in national culture. First it looks at assumptions related to adaptations (to external events) and internal integration. Then it dives in several dimensions of culture such as reality, time, space and relationships. Ed Schein devotes a chapter to explain why most organizational cultural dimensions and surveys are too much a simplification of reality and introduces a bit on how to decipher an organizational culture.

Part three looks at culture over time. It starts with how culture evolves in new groups (interesting!) and from there looks at the different stages of organizations and how culture evolves. This part has quite a lot of duplication with the Corporate Survival Guide book of the same author (unfortunately for those who read both). It also explores what leadership can do to change or evolve the culture.

Part four and five focuses a bit more on the leadership role in evolving and changing the organizational culture. It describes in depth Schein's organizational assessment method to explore the organizational culture in one particular dimension that matters for some change that is wanted in the organization. Part 5 links the book to the larger topic of learning organizations and defines what a learning culture and a learning leader is.

I enjoyed "Organizational Culture and Leadership" quite a lot. It is thorough and a bit repetitive at times (especially for people who have read Ed Schein's Corporate Survival Guide). Some parts were better than others. I especially enjoyed the culture creation in new groups and the parts about learning organizations. But the book is definitively recommended for anyone who is interested in organizational culture or involved in attempting to change an organizational culture. For those who read Ed Schein's Corporate Survival Guide, there will be a lot of repetition and the case studies are the same (though more detail). 4 stars.

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SeeingWhatIsThere

Outstanding Summary of Schein's Research into Organizational Culture

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2016

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One of the best books I have ever read. Schein explains, in very clear and articulate language, about organizational culture, how it evolves, and how it can be changed. He draws on many first hand experiences with multinational corporations in cultural assessments and programs for change. I think reading this book is essential for a broad understanding of how organizations evolve and operate.

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Bert

"Organizational Culture and Leadership" explores, analyzes and explains the behaviors and attitudes we encounter on a daily bas

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2015

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We all, I suspect, feel that there are things we can't quite see or explain but are shaping our experiences at work. Mr. Schein illuminates the fabric of our work life(organizational culture) so that we can better understand how action and reaction are caused or affected by the particular work culture. I found this very enlightening leading to a number of eureka moments. It was also somewhat embarrassing that I had missed so much of this over my work career! A must read for those switching jobs or careers.

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Skeep

Fascinating and Insightful

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2014

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In depth, yet easy to read, outlines how to understand one's organization from the broad sense of cultural influences. A lifetime of work put into simple language with appropriate references to businesses and corporations Schein advised. Takes the mystery out of why organizations will do some things and will not do others. And how to move them toward understanding and progress. Brilliant.

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Stewie75

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2018

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excellent book

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Ryan Heil

Absolutely the best book on culture I've come across

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2016

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Absolutely the best book on culture I've come across. Dr. Schein bridges the gap between academic research on culture and the everyday lived experience.

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Elizabeth

Had to read cover to cover for a class

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2014

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It was not a good fit for the educational context and is extremely dated. He tries to slip in modern references here and there, but it's obviously an attempt to make the book seem relevant. Too long to be practical. Too old to be useful.

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Cynthea Wellings

I am a company owner and this book was recommended by my lecturer at Avondale College (Australia)

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2016

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I am a company owner and this book was recommended by my lecturer at Avondale College (Australia). I found it excellent and extremely helpful. It is full of insights that will make my job easier and more fulfilling.

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Excellent guide to culture for the cerebral manager

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2013

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The book is certainly not something of the one minute variety and is much more an overview of the main scientific theories on the subjects of culture and leadership and their applications, than a specific recommendation on how things are to be done.

In this way it requires a sufficiently cerebral reader, who will actually actively choose the approach most suited to their specific organization, to get the most out of it. But if you are blessed with patience and perseverance the book is a real tour de force.

The author provides a pretty comprehensive overview of theories and aspects of culture and leadership and equips the reader with arguments for / against a specific approach in a given setting, or put differently, a map of settings where the approaches would work best.

While the examples largely come from the author's own prolific consulting experience and include a multitude of organizations, the majority still stems from the two companies where Schein worked most thoroughly - the DEC and Ciba Geigy. As these two are in many ways polar opposites, they work well for illustrating the points made.

As everything is derived from practically first principles, you really get lots of insights into how to identify, explore, understand and finally shape various aspects of culture. This makes the book a useful guide for someone new to an organization (and creating a picture for oneself of it), for someone leading an organization and wanting to change aspects of it, in an M&A context, where companies get merged and acquired (and where the cultural compatibility and the minefields associated therewith are often neglected prior to the deals being struck), etc.

As long as you are not expecting answers to fall at your feet within the first handful of pages, and understand yourself as an active participant in discovering the route and then carrying out the journey, the book makes excellent sense. If you are changing into a different organizational (or national) culture with your next job assignment, it is a blessing to at least be prepared with the right mindset / questions, before embarking on the journey.

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Margarida

Great! Book! Super quick delivery!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2018

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Great! Book! Super quick delivery!

M. Ashley

Pretty comprehensive so don't expect to get through it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2015

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Thought this would be heavy going but it makes a lot of sense.
Probably ideal for anyone doing a management or leadership course.
Pretty comprehensive so don't expect to get through it quickly

DaveF

Nothing really new from this established master

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2013

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Although Schein has been the thought leader in organisational cultural studies those who know his work will find little that is new. He misses latest developments in cultural studies (e.g. emergence theory), especially those related to how changes in the social world provide newer ways to see culture.

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LOUISE CERES

excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2014

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Schein always writes well and in a contemporary rather than academic way. I feel this makes the subject matter he writes about much more accessible. This was excellent for my MBA studies but I'd recommend this as an interesting read in itself

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