1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003950080403321

Autore

Robertson, Chris

Titolo

Business statistics : a multimedia guide to concepts and applications / Chris Robertson ; with cd rom by Moya McCloskey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Arnold Publishers, c2002

ISBN

0-340-71927-3

Descrizione fisica

xxv, 385 p. ; 25 cm + 1 cd rom

Disciplina

519. 524

Locazione

MAS

Collocazione

XVII-A-68

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973951803321

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

9786612272196

9781282272194

1282272195

9781592135479

1592135471

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