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- Distinguishes the difference between leadership and an organization's culture and the influence of both in relation to trust
- Based on interviews with heads of profit and nonprofit organizations
- Discusses how trust can be built and destroyed but also how a distrustful atmosphere can become healthy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice (CSRP)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Based on the interview of current and former chief executive officers from profit and non profit organizations to record their experiences in creating trust in their environment and their perceptions of the health of their organizations. The collected data reveals:
- The qualities of a "trusted" leader;
- How they created trust or;
- How trust was destroyed in organizations;
- How leaders worked in distrustful environments;
- How to create a more healthy organization.
This timely work will be of interest to organizations and occupational sociologists, human resource workers, social psychologists, and students of management courses.
Reviews
(Richard E. Kopelman; Contemporary Sociology 33, 2)
Authors and Affiliations
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New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA
John G. Bruhn
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Trust and the Health of Organizations
Authors: John G. Bruhn
Series Title: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0739-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47265-7Published: 31 July 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5218-1Published: 20 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0739-0Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1566-7847
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 222
Topics: Sociology, general, Management