Cultures In Organizations
Author: Joanne Martin
Despite the surge of interest over the last decade in cultural phenomena in organizations, researchers of widely differing disciplinary backgrounds, epistemologies, methodological preferences, and political ideologies continue to disagree about fundamental issues - with good reason. Consolidating a diverse array of theoretical and empirical studies into an analytical framework that clarifies and challenges the assumptions that have guided organizational culture research, this pathbreaking book delineates three competing perspectives and offers a way out of the conceptual chaos caused by conflicts among these viewpoints. This analysis acknowledges incommensurabilities without creating pressures toward assimilation, while offering insights unavailable to any single perspective. Exploring links to major intellectual developments (postmodernism, feminist theory, environmental dependence) within and outside of organizational theory, Cultures in Organizations brings a critical, interdisciplinary perspective to the field. This theoretical approach has an extensive empirical base, drawing on studies of a wide variety of organizations, including a large multi-national electronics corporation, the Peace Corps, universities, small non-profit organizations, and several large and small private-sector companies. By alternating between theoretical abstractions and studies of particular organizations, Joanne Martin delineates and bridges divergent approaches to the study of cultures in organizations, offering a breadth and an openness to multiple viewpoints not available elsewhere.
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The Hero's Farewell: What Happens when CEOs Retire
Author: Jeffrey A Sonnenfeld
How a business replaces its chief executive often determines that firm's future. If a business does not effectively manage the transfer of power, utter turmoil can result, with profound implications not only for the CEO, but also for the other employees, the shareholders, and the community at large.
Filled with inside stories from corporate boardrooms and fresh conceptual perspectives, The Hero's Farewell describes in rich detail the factors that affect executive succession. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld offers the first close examination of the critical role a CEO's departure style plays in helping, or hindering, the transfer of power. Through candid interviews with fifty prominent retired chief executives from corporations such as AT&T, Ford, Dupont, United Technologies, and Raytheon (David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan and Thomas J. Watson, Jr. of IBM among them) and a survey of an additional three hundred top managers, Sonnenfeld identifies the four major types of leadership departure styles. These types include Monarchs, who choose not to leave voluntarily but either die in office or are overthrown; Generals, who leave reluctantly and spend their retirement planning a comeback; Ambassadors, who retain close ties with their former firms; and Governors, who willingly serve a limited time and leave to pursue new interests.
Capturing the human drama of these departures and succession battles, The Hero's Farewell will fascinate anyone intrigued by power struggles in large corporations. Outlining ways to smooth out the inevitable transfers of power that corporations must face, Sonnenfeld presents essential information for all top executives and especially for CEOs.
Table of Contents:
| Chief Executives Interviewed | xi | |
| 1. | Heroes in Late Career | 3 |
| 2. | Aging Leaders and Other Aging Workers | 10 |
| 3. | Executive Retirement and the Parade of Future Leaders | 30 |
| 4. | Corporate Folk Heroes: Living Legends or Business Cheerleaders? | 39 |
| 5. | The Hero's Reluctant Farewell | 58 |
| 6. | The Monarch's Departure | 80 |
| 7. | The General's Departure | 129 |
| 8. | The Ambassador's Departure | 151 |
| 9. | The Governor's Departure | 183 |
| 10. | The Small Business Leader Faces Departure | 217 |
| 11. | Parting Patriarchs of the Family Firms | 237 |
| 12. | Riding into the Sunset and Through to Dawn | 267 |
| Appendix | Chief Executive Succession Survey | 291 |
| Notes | 295 | |
| Index | 313 |
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