The Character of a Corporation: How Your Company’s Culture Can Make or Break Your Business

The Character of a Corporation: How Your Company’s Culture Can Make or Break Your Business

by Gareth Jones (Author), Gareth Jones (Author), Gareth Jones (Author), Rob Goffee (Author)

Synopsis

It is corporate culture which really makes organizations triumph in the long term. Gareth Jones and Rob Goffee introduce a way of assessing and harnessing corporate culture. Having identified four distinct types of corporate culture - Networked, Mercenary, Fragmented and Communal - they advise executives on how to change their culture. They pose and answer two questions: what is your organization's culture? and is it the right one for the business challenges of the 21st century? In addition, the authors a ddress the ethical issues of manipulating the ways in which people relate to one another, and describe what kind of leadership styles tend to emerge in each type of culture.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: HarperCollins Business
Published: 17 Jan 2000

ISBN 10: 0006530524
ISBN 13: 9780006530527

Media Reviews
'If you want to grasp what it takes, personally and ethically, to change 'culture', read this book' Stephen R. Covey
Author Bio
Robert Goffee is an internationally-respected authority on organizational transformation. He is a professor of organizational behaviour at London Business School and a frequent contributer to newspapers and magazines, including The Times and Harvard Business Review. Gareth Jones holds two prestigious academic posts in organizational development at Henley Management College and at INSEAD in France. He has previously worked as Senior Vice President for Human Resources for Polygram International.