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Schein, Edgar H.

From Encyclopedia of the History of American Management
Edgar H. Schein was born in Zurich, Switzerland on 5 March 1928 and spent his childhood in Czechoslovakia and Russia before his father moved the family to Chicago, where he lectured in physics at the University of Chicago. Schein himself was educated at the University of Chicago, at Stanford University, where he received a master’s degree in psychology in 1949, and at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in social psychology in 1952. He was chief of the Social Psychology Section of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research while serving in the US Army as a captain from 1952 to 1956. He then joined the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1956 and was made a professor of organizational psychology and management in 1964. From 1968 to 1971 Schein was the undergraduate planning professor at MIT, and in 1972 he became chairman of the organization studies group, a position he held until 1982. In 1978 he was named the Sloan Fellows…
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Full text Article Schein, Edgar Henry (1928–)

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Full text Article Schein, Edgar H(enry) (1928– )

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Full text Article Schein, Edgar H.

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U.S. academic. The first to define corporate culture in Organizational Culture and Leadership (1985), and the developer of the notion of the psychological contract , originated by Chris Argyris . Schein completed a PhD in social psychology at Harvard and, after graduating in 1952, conducted research…
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Full text Article Organizational Oyltnre

From SAGE Key Concepts series: Key Concepts in Sport Management
Organizational culture involves the stories, ceremonies, language, values, beliefs, ways of operating and physical settings of an organization. It brings people back into organizations without paying attention to psychological measures . Organizational culture (sometimes called corporate culture) …
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Full text Article Organization cultures

From Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
Andrej A. Huczynski and David A. Buchanan in Organizational Behaviour (Pearson Education, 2007) define organizational culture as ‘the collection of relatively uniform and enduring values, beliefs, customs, traditions and practices that are shared by an organization's members, learned by new recruits…
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Full text Article Organizational Culture

From SAGE Key Concepts series: Key Concepts in Organization Theory
Organizational culture: the set of beliefs, values, assumptions, norms, stories, ceremonies, artifacts, and symbols within the organization, that influence the way employees behave and perform their jobs ORIGINS A useful starting point for a discussion of the concept of organizational culture is…
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Full text Article ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

From Encyclopedia of Nursing Research
Keywords: health care, nursing research, organizational culture, Nursing Research, Organizational Culture Organizational culture is one of several concepts attempting to explain individual and group behavior in workplaces in terms of longstanding, shared, and generally implicit (as opposed to…
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Full text Article Schein, Edgar H

From The New Penguin Business Dictionary
Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has made important contributions to knowledge on employee-employer relations and corporate culture. He demonstrated that not only the Rational Economic and Social Models relating to Douglas McGregor's theory X and theory Y , …
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Full text Article corporate culture

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the combined beliefs, values, ethics, procedures, and atmosphere of an organization. The culture of an organization is often expressed as “the way we do things around here” and consists of largely unspoken values, norms, and behaviors that become the natural way of doing things. An organization's…
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Full text Article The New Corporate Cultures

From BUSINESS: The Ultimate Resource
Deal and Kennedy wrote the first significant book on corporate culture, Corporate Cultures: Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life , in 1982. Their later book, The New Corporate Cultures , reexamines its role in the light of accelerating changes in the business environment. They set out to demonstrate…
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