Organisational culture research

Guldenmimd, F.W, Ellenbroek, M. and van den Hende, R. 2006. Organisational culture research in a trae Dutch company (in Dutch). Tijdschrift voor Toegepaste Arbowetenschap, 19(2), 24-32. 

The goals, priorities and activities are manifest in job characteristios -those features of organisational life and work that direcdy affect its members. Therefore, one line of enquiry within safety culture research is how it is affected by job characteristics. We presented evidence to suggest that such a relationship exists within British community pharmacies. In basic terms, safely climate varies according to the levels of psychological and physical demands and the personal and material resources available to meet these demands. 

Zenobia Talati is an Industrial/Organisational Psychology Masters and PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia Through her work as a research assistant, she has developed expertise in the areas of leadership, organisational culture/climate, workplace safely, safety leadership and proactivily. She has also co-authored a chapter on how leaders can improve employee safely behaviours and safety culture in high risk industries. 

Sagebiel, F. (2003) Masculinities in organisational cultures in engineering Study of departments in institutions of Higher Education and perspectives for social change. Presented at Gender and Power in the New Europe, 5th European Feminist Research Conference, 20-24 August, Lund, Sweden. 

Ankrah, N., Proverbs, D. and Debrah, Y (2007) A cultural profile of construction project organisations in the UK. In D. Boyd (ed.). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ARCOM Conference, pp. 169-79. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Belfast. 

We thank Mrs. W. Lemstra for help with various cell culture techniques, and Mrs. T. Bos for the supply of human skin fibroblasts. We are grateful to Prof B. Poll-The at Utrecht University for providing a CPTl-deficient skin fibroblast culture. Part of our research is funded by the Netherlands Heart Foundation (NHS), and the Netherlands Scientific Organisation (NWO). 

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