Excerpt from Starting From Difference: An Intergroup Approach to Understanding Culture in Organizations Organizations can be viewed as loci of time and space where both generally shared assumptions and highly contexualized values coexist and sometimes interact. These assumptions and values may evolve through common influences upon organization members (cf. The role of the Founder in Schein, or members may import the values with them into the organization (eg. Ethnocentrism and racism). Segmental differences in organizations can be manufactured internally through different activities and interaction patterns. Recruitment from different segments of the labor pool may also be a source of deep-seated differences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.