![]() ![]() Ravasi and Schultz (2006) characterise organizational culture as a set of shared assumptions that guide behaviors. The study concerned itself with the description, analysis, and development of corporate group behaviours. ![]() The "case" involved a publicly-held British company engaged principally in the manufacture, sale, and servicing of metal bearings. The book was a published report of "a case study of developments in the social life of one industrial community between April, 1948 and November 1950". Elliott Jaques first introduced the concept of culture in the organizational context in his 1951 book The Changing Culture of a Factory. Edgar Schein, a leading researcher in this field, defined "organizational culture" as comprising a number of features, including a shared "pattern of basic assumptions" which group members have acquired over time as they learn to successfully cope with internal and external organizationally relevant problems. Historically there have been differences among investigators regarding the definition of organizational culture. ![]()
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