Share
Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations
Beyond the Corporate Context
Edited by:
- Robert T. Carter - Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, Warwick University, UK
Volume:
1
Other Titles in:
Professional Issues (General)
Professional Issues (General)
February 2000 | 312 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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.
PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES
Robert T Carter
Perspectives on Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations
Clayton P Alderfer
National Culture and the New Corporate Language for Race Relations
Michelle Fine
'Whiting Out' Social Justice
David Thomas and Karen L Proudford
Making Sense of Race Relations in Organizations
Linda Darling-Hammond
School Contexts and Learning
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS
Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Families in Their Cultural and Multisystemic Contexts
A Lin Goodwin
Teachers as Multi(Cultural) Agents in Schools
Raechele L Pope and Corlisse D Thomas
Cultural Dynamics and Issues in Higher Education
Barbara C Wallace
Mental Health
Vivian Ota Wang
The House of God
Curtis W Branch
And Justice Is Blind (to Race and Ethnicity)
PART THREE: INTERVENTIONS AND APPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING
Samuel D Johnson
Classic Defenses
Roderick J Watts and Arthur Evans
Enhancing Diversity Climate in Community Organizations
Evangelina Holvino
Social Diversity in Social Change Organizations
Thomas Gallagher
Building Institutional Capacity to Address Cultural Differences
Robert T Carter and Leah M DeSole
Cultural Issues in Organizations
