Edgar Schein's extensive research delves into the intricate dynamics of organizational culture, process consultation, and the evolving nature of careers. He meticulously analyzes how various cultural contexts—national, organizational, and occupational—profoundly shape organizational performance. Schein offers critical insights into the helping process within human systems, guiding consultants and managers alike. His work provides a framework for understanding and diagnosing both individual career needs and the complex cultural landscapes that organizations navigate, emphasizing the practical application of his findings.
The Career Anchors instrument is designed to help clients identify their anchors and to think about how their values relate to their career choices. While this model has stood the test of time, there are many changing factors in the market that require a fresh look at the content.
Discovering Your Real Values
In many cases, people select a career for all the wrong reasons, and find their responses to the workplace are incompatible with their true values. This situation results in feelings of unrest and discontent and in lost productivity. To help people avoid these problems, the newly-revised Career Anchors is designed to help people uncover their real values and use them to make better career choices. This revised edition includes two new sections, "Major Stages of the Career" and "Career Movement, Progress, or Success." Instructions and other components have been revamped for clarification, the references have been updated, and the contents have been rearranged for more convenient usage in classes and workshops. Career Anchors can help you think through your career options and give you a clear understanding of: * Your own orientations toward work * Your motives * Your values * Your talents The Career Anchors Instrument and Trainer's Manual provide a systematic way of exploring how you perceive yourself, based on your own experiences. The instrument is divided into three parts?the orientations inventory, the career anchor interview, and the conceptual material. Career Anchors will help people: * Define the themes and patterns dominant in your life * Understand your own approach to work and a career * Provide reasons for choices * Take steps to fulfill your own self-image
A member of the PH OD Series! Volume II clarifies the concept of process consultation as a viable model of how to work with human systems as defined in the previous volume, Process Its Role in Organization Development (19 69), and introduces modifications and new ideas that elaborate on and have evolved beyond the material in the first volume. Included are such topics as cultural rules of interaction; initiating and managing change; intervention strategy; tactics and style; and emerging issues in process consultation.
In this thought-provoking book, Edgar Schein challenges the traditional assumptions and practices of management education. He argues that current approaches are narrow and outdated, and proposes a radical reformulation of the goals, content, and methods of management education. This book is a must-read for educators, students, and practitioners in the field of management.
This book examines the role of management education in socializing future business leaders. It covers topics such as ethics, leadership, and organizational culture, and provides a framework for developing a comprehensive management education program.
An insightful analysis of the concept of the generation gap and how it affects educational and business processes.