Organizational Culture in Higher Education
Defining the Essentials
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9017142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William G Tierney (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-21 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1546 • E-ISSN: 1538-4640 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00221546.1988.11778301 |
| OpenAlex | W2923962388 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 109 |
| References cited | 26 |
Within the business community in the last ten years, organizational culture has emerged as a topic of central concern to those who study organizations. Books such as Peters and Waterman's In Search of Excellence [37], Ouchi's Theory Z [33], Deal and Kennedy's Corporate Cultures [20], and Schein's Organizational Culture and Leadership [44] have emerged as major works in the study of managerial and organizational performance. However, growing popular interest and research activity in organizational culture comes as something of a mixed blessing. Heightened awareness has brought with it increasingly broad and divergent concepts of culture. Researchers and practitioners alike often view culture as a new management approach that will not only cure a variety of organizational ills but will serve to explain virtually every event that occurs within an organization. Moreover, widely varying definitions, research methods, and standards for understanding culture create confusion as often as they provide insight. The intent for this article is neither to suggest that an understanding of organizational culture is an antidote for all administrative folly, nor to imply that the surfeit of definitions of organizational culture makes its study meaningless for higher education administrators and researchers. Rather, the design of this article is to provide a working framework to diagnose culture in colleges and universities so that distinct problems can be overcome. The concepts for the framework
Economics · Higher education · Management · Organisation climate · Organization development · Organizational culture · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Cross-Cultural and Social Analysis · Law · Management Theory and Practice · Organizational Leadership and Management Strategies · Organizational Learning and Leadership · Psychology · Quality and Supply Management
Cultura organizacional de cursos de ciências contábeis
Finding professional true to self-authenticity in public university faculty experience
Institutional Environment and the Academic Community
University culture and sustainability
The Journey to an Inaugural Chief Diversity Officer
A Sociology of Teaching, Learning and Enhancement
Implications of artificial intelligence for academics' work
From Symbolism to Substance
Institutionalization Mechanisms at the Universities
International academics in national research institutes in Korea and Japan
Observable Evidence and Partnership Possibilities for Governing Board Involvement in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Implementing the global model of the research university in a national context
The effects of internal marketing strategies on the organizational culture of secondary public schools
Building capacity for health research in higher education
Communicating organisational culture of higher education
What Does It Take? Reframing Organizational Commitment to Campus Hazing Prevention
Deconstructing Professionalism
Equitable Study Abroad Fee Policies
“I Didn’t Become a Professor to Teach High School”
Exploring Transition From the Workplace to Higher Education During Covid‐19
Institutional trust load
Synergistic organizational influences
Internationalization of the university
Kulturtheoretische Grundlagen der Organisationspädagogik
The Role of Philanthropy on the Strategic Planning Process of a Selective Liberal Arts and Science College
Campus Culture and the Experiences of Chicano Students in a Predominantly White University
Introduction
Faculty-Administrator Relationships as Integral to High-Performing Governance Systems
Towards a Multiversity
Defined by Outcomes or Culture? Constructing an Organizational Identity for Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Context, Cognition, and Culture
The university president's role in establishing an institutional climate to encourage minority participation in higher education
Leadership and pedagogy
A feminist reinterpretation of presidents’ definitions of leadership
Organizational Socialization in Higher Education
Conflict management styles and work-related well-being among higher education employees
Local responses to institutional policy
Higher Education Change and Social Networks
Interviewing for an interdisciplinary job
We’re supposed to be at the forefront’
Higher education in Korea
Battling inertia in educational leadership
The Impact of Political Change on the State of Academia Including Academic Freedom in the Arab World
A false dichotomy of serving either the local or the global community and its impact on internationalisation of the university
Using ethnography to understand twenty-first century college life
Good jobs – but places for women
The Economic and Cultural Withdrawal of Academic Teaching in Italy
Democratic environment in higher education
Academic corruption
Organizational Assessment to Improve College Student Persistence
An inquiry process for individual and institutional ethics
E Pluribus Unum
Critical hermeneutics and higher education
Functions of an institutional culture of access
Third-Person Singular Present-Tense-S, -Th, and Zero, 1575-1648
(Re)Presentation and Voice
Facts and Constructs
The Effect of Institutional Culture on Change Strategies in Higher Education
How Change Unravels
The Cultural Cover-Up of College Athletics
Tangles in the Tapestry
Constructing the Presidency
Adapting to Diversity
The Roles of Institutional Cultures and Decision Approaches in Promoting Organizational Effectiveness in Two-Year Colleges
Strategies for change
Settling in
Keeping up with the Joneses
Subcultures and Use of Communication Information Technology in Higher Education Institutions
Pluralistic Leadership
The Role of Context in Academic Capitalism
Debating Diversity and Social Justice Curricular Requirements
Always at Odds
Academic Capitalism and Doctoral Student Socialization
The Thinking Team
Departmental Cultures and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
The Role of Culture in Institutional and Individual Approaches to Civic Responsibility at Research Universities
Remaking the American University
Configuration and Strategy Making in Universities
Witch-Hunting at Crucible University
Making Sense of Persistence in Scientific Purgatory
Exploring Involuntary Presidential Turnover in American Higher Education
Graduate Employee Unionization as Symbol of and Challenge to the Corporatization of U.S. Research Universities
Advancing a Comprehensive Equity Centered Theory of STEM Doctoral Persistence
Underpinning excellence in higher education - an investigation into the leadership, governance and management behaviours of high-performing academic departments
The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)
The Promise and Peril of Parallel Governance Structures
Does a University Have a Culture
Managing Meaning
Corporate cultures
Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis
A Competing Values Approach to Organizational Effectiveness
Leadership
The Interpretation of Cultures
Organizational Culture
Belief and Loyalty in College Organization
Academic Culture and Faculty Development
Faculty Cultures and Interdisciplinary Studies
Towards a definition of disciplinary cultures
Button - Down Collar Culture
| Unique citing works | 88 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,79 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2026 (40) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 107 |