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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820755903321

Autore

Kunda Gideon <1952->

Titolo

Engineering culture : control and commitment in a high-tech corporation / / Gideon Kunda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, : Temple University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-282-27219-5

9786612272196

1-59213-547-1

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

Labor And Social Change

Disciplina

658.4

Soggetti

Corporate culture

Organizational effectiveness

Control (Psychology)

Employee motivation

Quality of work life

High technology industries - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Acknowledgments; 1 - Culture and Organization; 2 - The Setting; 3 - Ideology: Tech Culture Codified; 4 - Presentational Rituals: Talking Ideology; 5 - Self and Organization: In the Shadow of the Golden Bull; 6 - Conclusion; Epilogue (2006); Appendix: Methods-A Confessional of Sorts; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Engineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book-which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew-has been revised to bring it up to date. In Engineering Culture, Gideon Kunda offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated ""corporate culture."" Kunda uses detailed descriptions of everyday interactions and rituals in which the culture is brought to life, excerpts from in-depth interviews and a wide variety of corporate texts to