Engineering culture : control and commitment in a high-tech corporation / / Gideon Kunda
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| Autore: |
Kunda Gideon <1952->
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| Titolo: |
Engineering culture : control and commitment in a high-tech corporation / / Gideon Kunda
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| 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: | 9786612272196 |
| 9781282272194 | |
| 1282272195 | |
| 9781592135479 | |
| 1592135471 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910973951803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Labor And Social Change