The Corporate Culture Survival Guide: New and Revised Edition

Preface to the New and Revised Edition

The field of organizational culture has evolved along several dimensions in the ten years since the first edition of this book. This new and revised edition attempts to capture this evolution while retaining the fundamental model of culture that continues to prove to be a useful tool. My basic model of organizational culture has not changed, but the application of the model has certainly changed both research and practice around culture formation, evolution, and managed change. I am still addressing the practicing leader and manager who wants to understand and work with culture. To that end the basic structure of the book will look similar to the first edition.

Culture as a concept in organizational life ...