Corporate Culture : The Key To Understanding Work Organisations
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Organisational or corporate culture is widely held to refer to a system of
shared meanings held by members that distinguishes the organisation from other
organisations, that is a set of shared key characteristics or values.
The culture that an organisation has will play an important part in its su ....
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.... by the staff.
Contrast this with a small organisation, thirsty for success in an emergent
market such as Steve Job's Apple Computers in the early eighties. Here was a
company led by a very strong character who was highly motivated, possessed a
highly practical imagination and was fanatical about detail. He built up a
multinational company on the strength of his ability to promote free thinking
coupled with the attention to detail that is required to produce a world class
computer within the ....
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