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Edgar H. Schein and Peter Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership

"Organizational Culture and Leadership" by Ed Schein: “Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of culture as a concept is that it points us to phenomena that are below the surface, that are powerful in their impact but invisible and to a considerable degree unconscious. In that sense, culture is to a group what personality or character is to an in

we must investigate why a culture is the way it is. For this inquiry, it is helpful to use Schein’s model, which divides culture into three layers: artifacts, espoused values, and underlying assumptions (Figure 11-1). Figure 11-1.

The notion of understanding yourself as a system challenges the idea that we each have one “self.”