{"id":3210,"date":"2015-06-02T11:23:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T03:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2015-06-02T11:23:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T03:23:59","slug":"the-nature-of-organizational-culture-a-critical-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=3210","title":{"rendered":"The Nature of Organizational Culture: A Critical Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chien-Chih Kuo<\/strong>
\nDepartment of psychology\u00a0Chung Yuan Christian University<\/p>\n

The concept of organizational culture has received increasing attention both from academics and practitioners since Pondy and Mitroff published their \u201cBeyond Open System of Organization\u201d in 1979. Culture provides a metaphor for the automatic patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving, and the meaning and ordering of organizational life. The study of organizational culture could build the entire analysis of organization around systems theory, and achieve a richer understanding of organizational phenomena. The purpose of this paper is four-fold: first, to present a water-lily diagram to decipher the content and meaning of organizational culture in the organization and management field; second, to present frameworks for analyzing the organizational culture literature based on research interests, paradigms, and approaches. Five themes emerged from the intersection of literature, including comparative management, corporate culture, organizational cognition, organizational symbolism, and unconscious processes; third, to propose a dynamic concept of culture change based on the process of culture creation, preservation, and evolution; and finally, to pull together the insights and findings from this inquiry in order to propose a research perspective on organizational culture for future studies.<\/p>\n

Keywords: organizational culture, comparative management, corporate culture, organizational cognition, organizational symbolism, unconscious processes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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