Engineering culture [[electronic resource] ] : control and commitment in a high-tech corporation / / Gideon Kunda

• Autore: Kunda Gideon <1952->
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, PA, : Temple University Press, 2006
• Edizione: Rev. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4
• Soggetto topico: Corporate culture; Organizational effectiveness; Control (Psychology); Employee motivation; Quality of work life; High technology industries - Management
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Engineering culture
• ISBN: 1-282-27219-5; 9786612272196; 1-59213-547-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778160403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Labor And Social Change