Management culture

Abstract

This chapter is premised on the argument that an awareness of Maltese management culture is fundamental to the study of local work organisations since human culture and value-oriented interpretations are more significant factors than the dependence of size, technology or pressure from the organisation's ecological environment in the making and shaping of working life. Furthermore, senior managers are one of the most influential groups in the creation of organisational meaning for their members. However, locally, relatively little has been written on organisational culture, and still less on management culture; and those few local sources of information available usually consider organisational structures as systems, thus neglecting other perspectives.