Managing corporate culture through reward systems

Academy of Management Executive

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 130-137

  Kerr, Jeffrey ^a   Slocum Jr , John W ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 32044452868     PISSN: 10795545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/ame.2005.19417915     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Several major popular books about culture have been written in the past five years. Some of the most recent include Edgar Schein's Organizational Culture and Leadership and Ralph Kilmann et al.'s Gaining Control of the Corporate Culture (both published by Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1985).
2. Recent academic reviews of this literature include "Concepts of Culture and Organizational Analysis," by Linda Smircich, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1983, 28, 339-358;
3. "The Uniqueness Paradox in Organizational Stories," by Joann Martin et al., Administrative Science Quarterly, 1983, 28, 438-453;
4. and "On Studying Organizational Cultures," by Andrew Pettigrew, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1979, 24, 570-581.
5. The difficulty of changing an organization's culture so that it is more closely aligned with the firm's strategy has been explored by Howard Schwartz and Stanley Davis in "Matching Corporate Culture and Business Strategy," Organizational Dynamics, Summer 1981, 30-48;
6. by Paul Shrivastava in "Integrating Strategy Formulation with Organizational Culture," Journal of Business Strategy, Winter 1984, 103-110;
7. and by Jay Barney in "Organizational Culture: Can It Be a Source of Sustained Competitive Advantage?" Academy of Management Review, 1986, 11, 656-665.
8. For examples of how culture either facilitated or impeded change, see Thomas Moore's "Culture Shock Rattles the TV Networks," Fortune, April 14, 1986;
9. Harold Seneker's "Why CEOs Pop Pills (and Sometimes Quit)," Fortune, July 12, 1978;
10. John Main's "Waking Up AT&T: There's Life After Culture Shock," Fortune, December 24, 1984;
11. and John Solomon and J. Bussey's "Cultural Change: Pressed by Rivals, Procter & Gamble Company Is Altering Its Ways," the Wall Street Journal, May 20, 1985.
12. Anthropologist Clyde Klukhohn's work cited in the text is titled "The Study of Culture," in D. Lerner and H. Lasswell (eds.) The Policy Sciences, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 1951.
13. For an excellent description of how diversification strategies affect managerial behavior, see Jeffrey Kerr's "Diversification Strategies and Managerial Rewards: An Empirical Study," Academy of Management Journal, 1985, 28, 155-179.
14. See Milton Leontiades's Strategies for Diversification and Change, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1980.