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Understanding Organizational Culture

Understanding Organizational Culture

Mats Alvesson

(2002)

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Abstract

A most timely and comprehensive book [by] one of our most intrepid and intellectually astute authors writing on this topic. This is a lively, enthusiastic text that covers a good deal of territory, looking at a variety of contemporary organizational cultures. The book is fascinating, usefully provocative and of considerable relevance' - John Van Maanen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This work provides great breadth within a textbook approach - covering a wide spectrum, while at the same time developing a new theoretical approach to organizational culture. It is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in management, organization studies or sociology and psychology.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Prelims (Foreword, by the Ethiopian Ministry of Water Resources and DFID )
1. Introduction
Roger Calow, Zemede Abebe and Alan Nicol
2. Ethiopia’s water resources, policies, and institutions
Eva Ludi, Bethel Terefe, Roger Calow and Gulilat Birhane
3. WASH sector monitoring
John Butterworth, Katharina Welle, Kristof Bostoen and Florian Schaefer
4. Innovative approaches for extending access to water services: the potential of multiple-use water services and self-supply
Marieke Adank, John Butterworth, Sally Sutton and Zemede Abebe
5. Sanitation and hygiene promotion in rural communities: the Health Extension Programme
Peter Newborne and Anu Liisanantti
6. Sustainability of water services in Ethiopia
Nathaniel Mason, Alan MacDonald, Sobona Mtisi, Israel Deneke Haylamicheal and Habtamu Abebe
7. Water for livelihood resilience, food security, and poverty reduction
Josephine Tucker, Zelalem Lema and Samson Eshetu Lemma
8. Responding to climate variability and change: implications for planned adaptation
Lindsey Jones, Lorraine Coulter, Million Getnet Gebreyes, Beneberu Shimelis Feleke, Naomi Oates, Leulseged Yirgu Gebreamlak and Josephine Tucker
9. Policy and practice influence through research: critical reflections on RiPPLE’s approach
Josephine Tucker, Ewen Le Borgne and Marialivia Iotti