Organizational Culture and Identity

Martin Parker is a Professor of Culture and Organization at the School of Management, Leicester University

Introduction PART ONE: HISTORIES AND THEORIES OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Managers in Search of Culture A Forgotten History of `Culture' Academics in Search of Culture Culture, Language and Representation PART TWO: THREE STORIES Northern District Health Authority Vulcan Industries Ltd The Moortown Permanent Building Society PART THREE: CULTURES AND IDENTIFICATIONS Three Organizations Together and Apart Culture, Theory and Politics

`Concerned with organizational culture, the central tenent of this book is that culture is not a harmoniously agreed principle, but a "fragmented" unity, where members are simultaneously both fragmented and unified.... the book moves on to offer detailed examples of the fragmentary nature of organizational culture through the analysis of ethnographic studies undertaken by the author within three differing industries; a health authority, small manufacturing foundry and a building society, with chapers devoted to each.... The introductory theory is very well illustrated...well signposted....[A]ppealing in its theoretical perspective to students of management & organizational studies, ...its straightforward clarity will appeal to undergraduate sociology students' - Sociology