Accession Number:

ADA141413

Title:

Corporate Culture: What It Is and How to Change It,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

ALFRED P SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT CAMBRIDGE MA

Personal Author(s):

• Schein,E. H.

Report Date:

1983-11-01

Pagination or Media Count:

47.0

Abstract:

This paper briefly reviews the concept of corporate culture -- what it is and how it is initially formed and evolved. The bulk of the paper describes what kinds of functions culture serves at different stages of the organizational life cycle, and the implications of those functions for whether and how to change culture. Ten different mechanisms of culture change are described. Author

Descriptors:

• *Resource management
• *Personnel management
• *Jobs
• *Culture
• *Corporations
• Leadership
• Motivation
• Learning
• Human resources
• Life cycles
• Organizations

Subject Categories:

• Administration and Management
• Sociology and Law
• Personnel Management and Labor Relations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE