This paper seeks to contribute to the study of organisational culture within the public sector by using Mary Douglas' cultural theory to analyse organisational cultures within the Australian Public Service (APS). It shows that the four cultures that she identifies, namely, hierarchy, individualism, ...
according to a four-year specialist research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and supported by the Acas conciliation service and the Equality and Human Right Commission,is that conventional solutions do not work because they fail to address the organisational culture that dict...
according to a four-year specialist research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and supported by the Acas conciliation service and the Equality and Human Rights Commission,is that conventional solutions do not work because they fail to address the organisational culture that ...
Four Types of Organisational Structure TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page I. Introduction 3 II. Functional Structure 4-6 III. Geographical Structure 7-9 IV. Product Structure 10-12 V. Matrix Structure 13-15 VI. Conclusion 16 VII. References 17 INTRODUCTION Organisational is a key elemen...
So whyisit that the developers of grid-group cultural theory more or less wrote off fatalism as an organisational possibility? For them (especially Douglas, Wildavsky and, still, Thompson) it was always ‘passive’, inactive, withdrawn from policy debates. Of course, fatalists make out they’re...
400,000 Americans die of heart attacks every year, mostly because of a glaring flaw in the business of medicine — a flaw that could be easily fixed.
(2015). Four seasons in one day: The different shades of organisational culture in Higher Education. Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy, 3(4), 559-588.Heidrich, B. and Chandler, N. (2015), "Four seasons in one day: the different shades of organizational culture in one day in ...
This study examines the extent to which perceptions of family‐friendly organisational culture relate to employees' satisfaction with work–family balance (SATWFB) and how this, in turn, associates with their turnover intentions (TIs). Furthermore, we explore the extent to which employee experiences...
Vigor and dedication were perceived as the direct opposites of exhaustion and cynicism, the core symptoms of burnout [57]. In addition, along with absorption, a key characteristic of the flow state is integrated [59]. Flow characterizes a state of mind that is highly motivated, willing to ...
Along with the above authors, I suggest that key similarities relating to the mechanisms of research-use (Column 1) make a joint analysis of these two sectors relevant and enable an exploration of whether those mechanisms play out in similar ways in different sectors. This may help us ...