Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate

Book Overview

Recipient of the 2001 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title

The Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate provides an overview of current research, theory and practice in this expanding field. The editorial team and the authors come from diverse professional and geographical backgrounds, and provide an unprecedented coverage of topics relating to both culture and climate of modern organizations.

The Handbook comprises five parts:
Part I introduces the basic concepts of culture and climate, contrasting the range and diversity of perspectives. Part II deals with issues in measurement of culture and climate, and means to assess the outcome of these phenomena. Part III provides coverage of how culture and climate contribute to processes of change in the modern world. Part IV introduces the relationship between culture and climate and human resource aspects of organizational life, including commitment, attachment, socialization, and careers. Part V provides a global perspective on organizational culture, with chapters on culture and climate in Japanese, Chinese, European, and American settings.

Well-known editors Neal Ashkanasy, Celeste P. M. Wilderom, and Mark F. Peterson lend a truly international perspective to what is the single most comprehensive and up-to-date source on the growing field of organizational culture and climate. In addition, the Handbook opens with a foreword by Andrew Pettigrew and two provocative commentaries by Ben Schneider and Edgar Schein, and concludes with an invaluable set of combined references.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141290482X
• ISBN13: 9781412904827
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 664 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.3" x 7.3"