... questions guiding the study are: What are the hybrid structural characteristics of the religious association? How has this hybrid structure influenced the organizational culture? Findings The study identifies a hybrid structure comprising community, familial, and bureaucratic features. It reveals...

... Information, long-term unpaid leave and compensation for adult/elder care responsibilities Employment Human resource management Organizational culture Women Carers Elderly care Adult and elder care responsibilities are a wide-ranging societal issue which keeps growing in the context...

... Ambulance services Organizational culture Humour Police culture Paramedic culture Coping Inter‐agency working Two clans may, in some instances, be united in a way in which there is a permanent union of solidarity between the clans as groups and the members thereof (Radcliffe‐Brown, 1952, p. 110...

... rationality is that being more rational, i.e. attending to more than a narrow impoverished view, provides the prospect of action advancing the social and the economic in a profound way. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Organizational structures Organizational culture Socialization...