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Organizational culture refers to culture related to organizations including schools, universities, not-for-profit groups, government agencies, and business entities. Alternative terms include corporate culture and company culture. The term corporate culture emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [1][2] It was used by managers, sociologists ...
Edgar Henry Schein (March 5, 1928 – January 26, 2023) [1] was a Swiss-born American business theorist and psychologist who was professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was a foundational researcher in the discipline of organizational behavior, [2] and made notable contributions in the field of organizational development in many ...
Business administration. Organizational behavior or organisational behaviour (see spelling differences) is the "study of human behavior in organizational settings, the interface between human behavior and the organization, and the organization itself". [1] Organizational behavioral research can be categorized in at least three ways: [2] Chester ...
Onboarding or organizational socialization is the American term for the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational members and insiders. In standard English [clarify], this is referred to as "induction". [1] In the United States, up to 25% of workers are ...
Chris Argyris (July 16, 1923 – November 16, 2013 [1]) was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School.Argyris, like Richard Beckhard, Edgar Schein and Warren Bennis, [citation needed] is known as a co-founder of organization development, and known for seminal work on learning organizations.
Organizational identity. Organizational identity is a field of study in organizational theory, that seeks the answer to the question: "who are we as an organization?" [ 1 ][ 2 ] The concept was first defined by Albert and Whetten (1985) and later updated and clarified by Whetten (2006),
The communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) perspective is broadly characterized by the claim that communication is not something that happens within organizations or between organizational members; instead, communication is the process whereby organizations are constituted. Specifically, this view contends: “organization is an ...
Work on just culture has been applied to industrial, [6] healthcare, [7] [8] aviation [9] [10] and other [11] settings. The first fully developed theory of a just culture was in James Reason's 1997 book, Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents. [2] In Reason's theory, a just culture is postulated to be one of the components of a safety ...