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Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations
Beyond the Corporate Context

Edited by:

Robert T. Carter - Teachers College, Columbia University, USA, Warwick University, UK

Volume: 1

Series:
Winter Roundtable Series (Formerly: Roundtable Series on Psychology & Education)

Other Titles in:
Professional Issues (General)

February 2000 | 312 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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.

PART ONE: PERSPECTIVES

Robert T Carter

Perspectives on Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations

Clayton P Alderfer

National Culture and the New Corporate Language for Race Relations

Michelle Fine

'Whiting Out' Social Justice

David Thomas and Karen L Proudford

Making Sense of Race Relations in Organizations

Theories for Practice

Linda Darling-Hammond

School Contexts and Learning

Organizational Influences on the Achievement of Color

PART TWO: ORGANIZATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS

Nancy Boyd-Franklin

Families in Their Cultural and Multisystemic Contexts

A Lin Goodwin

Teachers as Multi(Cultural) Agents in Schools

Raechele L Pope and Corlisse D Thomas

Cultural Dynamics and Issues in Higher Education

Barbara C Wallace

Mental Health

The Influence of Culture on the Development of Theory and Practice

Vivian Ota Wang

The House of God

The Fallacy of Neutral Universalism in Medicine

Curtis W Branch

And Justice Is Blind (to Race and Ethnicity)

Is That Good?

PART THREE: INTERVENTIONS AND APPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING

Samuel D Johnson

Classic Defenses

A Critical Assessment of Ambivalence and Denial in Organizational Leader's Responses to Diversity

Roderick J Watts and Arthur Evans

Enhancing Diversity Climate in Community Organizations

Evangelina Holvino

Social Diversity in Social Change Organizations

Standpoint Learnings for Organizational Consulting

Thomas Gallagher

Building Institutional Capacity to Address Cultural Differences

Robert T Carter and Leah M DeSole

Cultural Issues in Organizations

Summary and Conclusions

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