Developing managers: The functional, the symbolic, the sacred and the profane

Ken Kamoche

doi:10.1177/0170840600214004

Developing managers: The functional, the symbolic, the sacred and the profane

Ken Kamoche

Department of Management

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Abstract

This paper offers a new perspective on international management by examining the role of culture and management development in creating international expertise, a sense of identity and realizing organizational control. A critical analysis of the culture transmission and management development philosophy and practice of a UK-based transnational reveals how the transmission of culture accomplishes management development objectives, while management development itself serves as a vehicle for the transmission of the desired corporate values. This recursiveness is sustained by a corporate ideology that urges the creation of integrative values and, in turn, is legitimized by the quest for favourable functional and symbolic consequences.
© 2000 EGOS

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	747-774
Journal	Organization Studies
Volume	21
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840600214004
Publication status	Published - 2000

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Culture
Functionalism
Ideology
Management training and development
Symbolism

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