Occupational Subcultures in the Workplace / / Harrison M. Trice.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Trice, Harrison M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Those who study organizational behavior have increasingly accepted the notion that workplaces function as cultures. Harrison M. Trice goes one step further, suggesting that occupations create powerful subcultures. Largely overlooked, they play an essential role in the dynamics of a workplace. Drawing examples from professionals as diverse as cowboys, accountants, jazz musicians, stevedores, bartenders, and nurses, he argues for a shift in emphasis from the overall organizational culture to the interrelationships of subcultures.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. An Emphasis on Occupations and Their Cultures -- 1. The Nature of Occupational Life -- 2. Occupational Cultures -- 3. Ideologies in Occupational Life -- 4. Cultural Forms in Occupations -- 5. Rites of Passage in Occupational Cultures: Learning to Be an Insider -- Part II. Occupational Cultures inside Work Organizations -- 6. Occupational Subcultures and Countercultures -- 7. Adaptations between Occupational and Administrative Subcultures -- 8. Adaptations between Occupational Cultures -- 9. Conclusions and Implications: Toward a Subcultural Analysis of Organizational Culture -- References -- Index