Systems Thinking Cultural Context to Support Sys HRM

Regina Tendayi and Larry M. Starr
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Regina Tendayi: Lehigh University
Larry M. Starr: Lehigh University

Chapter Chapter 9 in Systemic Human Resource Management, 2025, pp 185-196 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Culture is a complicated and complex concept. Arguably, the Western thought-leader in the study of organizational culture was Edgar Schein (1928–2023), Swiss-born American business theorist, psychologist, and professor at MIT. In The Corporate Culture Survival Guide (2009), Schein compares culture to personality in that it results from a learning and adaptation process based on coping with its variety of challenges. Schein noted (in Kuppler, 2014, https://www.humansynergistics.com/blog/culture-university/2014/03/03/culture-fundamentals-9-important-insights-from-edgar-schein/ ),For Schein, culture is not simple or merely obvious. Adopting a biological/organic metaphor, similar to the iceberg model, he further noted (in Kuppler, 2014, https://www.humansynergistics.com/blog/culture-university/2014/03/03/culture-fundamentals-9-important-insights-from-edgar-schein/ ),

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-89921-8_9

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