ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Organizational Culture and Leadership, 3rd Edition

Part ThreeTHE LEADERSHIP ROLEIN CULTURE BUILDING,EMBEDDING, ANDEVOLVINGPart Two focused on the content of culture and the process of decipheringcultural assumptions. The primary focus was on culture. Wenow shift the focus to leadership, especially the role that leadershipplays in creating and embedding culture in a group. As I haveargued throughout, the unique function of leadership that distinguishesit from management and administration is this concern forculture. Leaders begin the culture creation process and, as we willsee, must also manage and sometimes change culture.To fully understand the relationship of leadership to culture, wealso have to take a developmental view of organizational growth.The role of leadership in beginning the formation of an organizationalculture will be covered in Chapter Twelve. Chapter Thirteenexamines how leaders of a young and successful organization cansystematically embed their own assumptions in the daily workings223