The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0969-9988.htm Organizational culture: the case of Turkish construction industry Ela Oney-Yazıcı‚ Heyecan Giritli‚ Gulfer Topcu-Oraz and Emrah Acar Department of Architecture‚ Division of Project and Construction Management‚ Istanbul Technical University‚ Istanbul‚ Turkey Abstract Purpose – The main stimulus of this study is to examine the cultural profile of construction organizations within the context
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People and Organizational Management in the Built Environment Theory of Organizational Culture: The Climatic and Cultural Factors Table of Contents SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION ................................................................................. 3 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN THE CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS ..................................... 3 WHAT IS ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE?................................................................... 3 WHY DOES IT MATTER? ........
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In the article The Changing Culture of Childhood: A Perfect Storm by Joe L. Frost‚ the idea that a “perfect storm” in the educational system is brewing due to standardized tests. By implementing“teach to the test‚” it’s affecting the time in a child’s life to play and increasing the poverty rate worldwide. According to Frost‚ standardized testing has taken the “individuality‚ creativity‚ cooperative learning‚ community involvement‚ and the balance of academics and other activities‚” out of our
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1.2.1.29 Organisational Culture. This sub-category describes how an organisation develops a culture and supports behaviours which are consistent with its values‚ and encourage achievement of organisational objectives. Most of the studies which addressed this issue focused on manufacturing companies. For example‚ Harber et al. (1993a) studied a large business enterprise within the electronics industry. They found TQM to be an excellent program to bring about massive change in both social and technological
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REVIEW Article Review of Organizational Culture in the Public Sector: Evidence from Six Organizations Team Orange Grand Canyon University “Organizational Culture in the Public Sector: Evidence from Six Organizations” by Rachel Parker and Lisa Bradley researches changing culture by looking at six departments in the Australian Queensland public sector. They surmised that changing organizational culture is difficult when norms and values are
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The "Space Traders" Commentary on Racism "Space Traders" is a short story written by Derrick Bell‚ a current professor of law at NYU. Bell is not a science fiction writer‚ nor does he claim to be‚ but he uses science fiction to portray a story of racism that sounds ludicrous upon first reading. However it does in fact tell a story that is relevant to the issues America faces on racism today. Being a lawyer‚ Bell approaches this story from a political standpoint‚ giving symbolic meaning to even
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narrator with the self referenced name of Joe‚ and his best friend Tyler Durden. With their first meeting‚ Joe was enamoured with Tyler. From his poetically spun words to the the unthinkable barbaric actions his thoughts eventually led up to‚ Joe soon wasn’t just a friend‚ but a captive to the mind of Tyler Durden. Throughout the story Joe compulsively follows Tyler’s wishes‚ eventually not able to run away from his friend‚ eternally caught in the web of obedience. Joe once said that “The cancer I don’t
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CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT STRATEGY JULY 2012 BIS Continuous Improvement Strategy Contents BIS Continuous Improvement Strategy ........................................................................................ 3 Why Continuous Improvement?.................................................................................................... 3 Continuous Improvement has been at the heart of a number of key areas of work.................. 4 Developing customer focus..................
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“I’m fourteen years old and I’ve been to forty-two funerals”‚ Junior says. That’s really the big difference between Indians and white people. In the community of Wellpinit‚ everyone is related‚ everyone is valued‚ everyone lives a hardscrabble life‚ and everyone is at risk for early death‚ and the loss of one person is a loss to the community. Compare Wellpinit to Reardan‚ whose residents have greater access to social services‚ health care‚ and wealth‚ and the people are socially distanced from each
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English- Unseen poetry In the poem advice to a teenage daughter it advises the daughter to leave men alone because she can’t contend with what boys like and it does this by creating a feel of war and battle throughout the poem because the writer feels as though relationships are a war and she thinks it is best that the daughter doesn’t go through what she went through. Firstly‚ the writer use a list in the line ’can’t compete with football‚ motorcycles‚ cars‚ cricket‚ computer games‚ or a plate
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