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Personal and Corporate Culture: A Complicated Relationship

Filed under On the Job
Posted by Libraries, July 29, 2008
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In the past couple of decades there has been an increased awareness for the phenomenon of ‘corporate culture’. However, quite often this jargon acts as more of a buzz phrase than something revealing in-depth understanding. Journalist Kamal Kant talks about the cultural subtleties that underlie any given organization, ways of functioning that run deeper than say - company goals. According to Kant, there is a lack of appreciation for just how much corporate culture, and one’s ability to fit into it plays a role in determining one’s career success. Understanding and fitting into a company’s culture is a type of know-how that can make a tremendous difference to the tune of whether and how you will move along its framework.

Want more? Then check out this book at the Simmons School of Management Library entitled, Corporate cultures : the rites and rituals of corporate life, and further explore topics on the corporate culture.

blogged by Julie Waddick