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Emerald Group Publishing proudly presents Leadership and Cultural Webs in Organisations: Weavers' Tales, Adrian McLean (The McLean Partnership Inc., Vermont). If you are a professional or scholar interested in organisational culture, change, behavior, development, and leadership then you might be interested in this recently published book.
The call for a change of culture is commonplace in corporate and governmental settings. What this means and how to go about it have proved to be elusive challenges for the field of organisation and leadership studies. This work brings insights from the field of anthropology to illuminate these questions and proposes a fresh approach to working with them. Interweaving ideas from the fields of Social Construction, Anthropology and Complex Responsive Processes with examples of cultural change drawn from across the spectrum of organisational life, this book offers a compelling perspective on how to work with these powerful yet hidden forces. Instead of seeing organisations as structures to be managed or 'engineered', it considers the implications of seeing them as living communities.
The author combines 35 years of experience as a consultant with the rigour of business academia. With a capacity to bring clarity to complex issues, the author identifies a range of practical and strategic options for those leaders, managers and consultants looking to promote cultural change. Building on the metaphor of cultures as 'webs of signification', McLean considers how cultural webs form, how they change, and shows how to reveal the unique forms that they take in different organizational settings.
Review
"One of the most exciting publications in the field of leadership development and culture change in the last decade... an essential read for those who believe that culture is the glue that makes everything else stick."
Martine Cannon, Organisation Development Coach
Further information, including a full table of contents, can be found here. The book's ISBN is 9781783501083. Any questions can be directed to the publisher, Zoe Sanders – zsanders@emeraldinsight.com
Zoe Sanders
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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