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Contents
Concept of Culture 2
What is Organizational Culture 3
The Internet and Organizational Culture 3
Cultural Change 5
The Classical Approach to Cultural Description 5
New Ways of Describing Culture 6
Culture as Emergence 7
Steps in Organizational Culture Change 8
Managing Organization Cultural Change 8
Bibliography 12







ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Concept of Culture
The concept of culture is complex and definitions of culture vary. The anthropologist Edward Tylor defined culture in the late 1800s as “that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and other capabilities acquired by a man as a member of a society” (Hill, 2005). More recently, Hofstede has defined culture as “the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group or category of people from another” (Hofstede, 1984). Furthermore, De Long & Fahey (2000) describe culture more generally as a system of......

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