Introduction to the Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate, Second Edition

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99.95, hardcover.The editors of this comprehensive reference provide an extensive overview of current research, theory, and practice in the field of organizational culture and climate in modern organizations. They introduce the basic concept and deal with issues in measurement of culture and climate. They also introduce the relationship between culture and climate and human resource aspects of organizational life. The last section provides a global perspective on organizational culture in global settings. This Fourth Edition of The CompensationHandbook contains three-quarters completely new material that editors Lance and Dorothy Berger have compiled. This book provides guidance for compensation and human resources professionals with up-todate help with base compensation, compensation and corporate culture, and compensation in an international environment. It also provides guidelines for all aspects of compensation with worksheets, checklists, and evaluation forms. Information is offered on how to attract, retain, and motivate key employees and executives.

Safety Culture in Financial Trading: An Analysis of Trading Misconduct Investigations

“…Although many theories and measurements exist for studying organisational culture and behaviour (Ashkanasy et al 2000), safety culture focuses upon explaining why organisational employees engage in risky and unethical behaviours, and how these can lead to mishaps. Thus, for industries in which Risk Management is central to delivery, and where failures to effectively manage risk can lead to catastrophic failure, safety culture is valuable both theoretically and practically.…”

Doctoral Education in a Successful Ecological Niche: A Qualitative Exploratory Case Study of the Relationship between the Microclimate and Doctoral Students’ Learning to Become a Researcher

“…Of course, it could be argued that we overestimate the significance of microclimate as a determining factor in doctoral education. However, looking into the vast literature on organizational culture and climate, and the well-established knowledge on the relationship between climate and work situations that makes us more or less comfortable or productive (see, for example, Ashkanasy, Wilderom, & Peterson, 2011), we believe that microclimates in doctoral education are worth studying in order to provide the optimal ecological niches for doctoral students' learning.…”

Positive Emotion in Organizations: A Multi-Level Framework

“…In the context of work organizations, organizational climate has been studied for some time now (see Ashkanasy, Wilderom, & Peterson, 2000;Reichers & Schneider, 1990), and constitutes the collective mood of organizational members toward their jobs, the organization, and management. The concept is distinct from organizational culture, in that climate is essentially an emotional phenomenon, while culture is more stable, and rooted in beliefs, values, and embedded assumptions (Ashkanasy, Wilderom, & Peterson, 2000;Ott, 1989;Schein, 1985).…”

“…The concept is distinct from organizational culture, in that climate is essentially an emotional phenomenon, while culture is more stable, and rooted in beliefs, values, and embedded assumptions (Ashkanasy, Wilderom, & Peterson, 2000;Ott, 1989;Schein, 1985). A number of writers in the organizational literature have noted the emotional basis of organizational culture (e.g.…”