Description
Analyzing how unexamined cultural patterns influence an organization's culture, this book provides conceptual models and ideas about how to build practical approaches to organizational interventions.
The contributors focus on the broad issues such as how organizational leaders shape and influence the agenda surrounding culture; cover institutional and organizational issues in corporate, educational, mental health, and service organizations; and discuss various organizational intervention strategies and approaches.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES
Perspectives on Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations - Robert T Carter
National Culture and the New Corporate Language for Race Relations - Clayton P Alderfer
'Whiting Out' Social Justice - Michelle Fine
Making Sense of Race Relations in Organizations - David Thomas and Karen L Proudford
Theories for Practice
School Contexts and Learning - Linda Darling-Hammond
Organizational Influences on the Achievement of Color
PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS
Families in Their Cultural and Multisystemic Contexts - Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Teachers as Multi(Cultural) Agents in Schools - A Lin Goodwin
Cultural Dynamics and Issues in Higher Education - Raechele L Pope and Corlisse D Thomas
Mental Health - Barbara C Wallace
The Influence of Culture on the Development of Theory and Practice
The House of God - Vivian Ota Wang
The Fallacy of Neutral Universalism in Medicine
And Justice Is Blind (to Race and Ethnicity) - Curtis W Branch
Is That Good?
PART THREE: INTERVENTIONS AND APPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING
Classic Defenses - Samuel D Johnson
A Critical Assessment of Ambivalence and Denial in Organizational Leader's Responses to Diversity
Enhancing Diversity Climate in Community Organizations - Roderick J Watts and Arthur Evans
Social Diversity in Social Change Organizations - Evangelina Holvino
Standpoint Learnings for Organizational Consulting
Building Institutional Capacity to Address Cultural Differences - Thomas Gallagher
Cultural Issues in Organizations - Robert T Carter and Leah M DeSole
Summary and Conclusions
