Part One: What Culture Is and Does. 1. Defining Organizational Culture --- 2. Why Culture Must Be Better Understood --- 3. Functions of Culture in Organizations ---- Part Two: The Dimensions of Culture. 4. Content and Levels of Culture --- 5. How to Uncover Cultural Assumptions in an Organization --- 6. Ethical Problems in Culture Studies and Interventions ---- Part Three: How Cultures Begin and Develop. 7. How Culture Forms: Theoretical Perspectives --- 8. Observing Culture Emerge in Small Groups --- 9. How Organization Founders Shape Culture --- 10. How Leaders Embed and Transmit Culture ---- Part Four How Cultures Change. 11. Understanding Culture Change in the Context of Organizational Change --- 12. Organizational Growth Stages and Culture Change Mechanisms --- 13. Analyzing the Change Process --- 14. Leadership as Managed Culture Change ---- Part Five: The Evolution of Culture and leadership. 15. What Leaders Need to Know About How Culture Changes --- 16. A Conceptual Model for Managed Culture Change --- 17. Assessing Cultural Dimensions: A Ten-Step Intervention ---- Part Six: Learning Cultures and Learning Leaders. 18. A Case of Organizational (Cultural?) Change. --- 19. The Learning Culture and the Learning Leader.