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6 Relationships between culture and SHRM: do values have consequences?

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter you should be able to:
explain the meanings of national and organisational cultures and the debates relating to their existence; discuss the importance of organisational and national cultures in managing SHRM interventions; explore the three main perspectives through which culture has been explored within organisations: integration, differentiation and fragmentation; assess the complexity of issues associated with aligning culture to an organisations strategic direction;
analyse the linkages between organisational and other cultural spheres and SHRM interventions.

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Figure 6.1 Mapping diagram of the relationships between culture and strategic human resource management: a summary diagram of the chapter content
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Figure 6.2 Schematic distribution of the Confucian dynamism dimension for the UK and Japan
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Figure 6.3 Trompenaars and Hampden-Turners dimensions of cultural differences

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Figure 6.4 A comparison of Hofstedes and Scheins representations of organisational cultures

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Figure 6.5 Deal and Kennedys typology of organisational culture

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Figure 6.6 Johnson and Scholes cultural web

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Figure 6.7 Beer et al.s bottom-up approach to task alignment

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