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Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations

Beyond the Corporate Context

By: Robert T. Carter (Editor)

Paperback

Published: 1st February 2000
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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.

Perspectives
Perspectives on Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations
National Culture and the New Corporate Language for Race Relations
'Whiting Out' Social Justice
Making Sense of Race Relations in Organizations
Theories for Practice
School Contexts and Learning
Organizational Influences on the Achievement of Color
Organizational and Institutional Settings
Families in Their Cultural and Multisystemic Contexts
Teachers as Multi(Cultural) Agents in Schools
Cultural Dynamics and Issues in Higher Education
Mental Health
The Influence of Culture on the Development of Theory and Practice
The House of God
The Fallacy of Neutral Universalism in Medicine
And Justice Is Blind (to Race and Ethnicity)
Is That Good?
Interventions and Applications for Training
Classic Defenses
A Critical Assessment of Ambivalence and Denial in Organizational Leader's Responses to Diversity
Enhancing Diversity Climate in Community Organizations
Social Diversity in Social Change Organizations
Standpoint Learnings for Organizational Consulting
Building Institutional Capacity to Address Cultural Differences
Cultural Issues in Organizations
Summary and Conclusions
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ISBN: 9780761905493
ISBN-10: 0761905499
Series: Winter Roundtable Series
Audience: Professional
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 312
Published: 1st February 2000
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 1.6
Weight (kg): 0.44