Engineering culture : control and commitment in a high-tech corporation / Gideon Kunda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kunda, Gideon, 1952-

Series:

Labor And Social Change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporate culture--Case studies.

Corporate culture.

Organizational effectiveness--Case studies.

Organizational effectiveness.

Control (Psychology)--Case studies.

Control (Psychology).

Employee motivation--Case studies.

Employee motivation.

Quality of work life--Case studies.

Quality of work life.

High technology industries--Management--Case studies.

High technology industries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Engineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book-which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew-has been revised to bring it up to date. In Engineering Culture, Gideon Kunda offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated ""corporate culture."" Kunda uses detailed descriptions of everyday interactions and rituals in which the culture is brought to life, excerpts from in-depth interviews and a wide variety of corporate texts to

Contents:

Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Acknowledgments; 1 - Culture and Organization; 2 - The Setting; 3 - Ideology: Tech Culture Codified; 4 - Presentational Rituals: Talking Ideology; 5 - Self and Organization: In the Shadow of the Golden Bull; 6 - Conclusion; Epilogue (2006); Appendix: Methods-A Confessional of Sorts; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-294) and index.

ISBN:

9786612272196

9781282272194

1282272195

9781592135479

1592135471

OCLC:

476074939