Organisational culture
Edgar Schein
1928 – 2023
Levels of culture explain why the deepest layer — the shared assumptions — is not written anywhere and is learned by observation.
Read alongside: Sense · Shape
- Start with
- Organizational Culture and Leadership (1985)
- Where they resist the book
- Schein still treats culture as something leaders can eventually manage. The book treats it as something they mostly demonstrate.
Works worth the time
Organizational Culture and Leadership · 1985
The three levels, and why the deepest one is never written down anywhere.
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Where Schein appears
IV. ShapePsychology
Small repeated acts outrun large announced ones.
Weick's small wins argue that a scale of problem people can act on beats a scale they can only admire. Schein's levels of culture explain why the deepest layer is not written anywhere. Lewin's field theory keeps the attention on conditions rather than character.