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Globalisation has led to acceleration and vast change not only in technology and work processes, but alro in organisational culture. Organisational culture is one of the few concepts that have been variously defined in social science literature. Schein (1997) focuses on the various subsystcms in organisations whose function is to deliver the products or services stemming from the organisations basic mission. He argues that each subsystem develops its own culture, and it is those cultures that often become the primary target of organisational transformation efforts. Organisational cultures seem to have a high impact on orgnisational development.

Within such a basic framework, the objective of this study is to observe and manifest the dynamics of organisational culture and change in a midsize (n = 2056), family owned industrial organisation. Both quantitative and qualitative measurement approaches are used. The results reveal that the organisational culture changed during the organisation's 40-year lifespan.

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The impact of natural disasters on survivors has been a thrust area in psychological research since the early twentieth century. However, the discipline's strong adberence to a set of "scientific" methods has rendered the research in this area also to be acultural, ahistorical and apclitical through the use of the diagnostic category, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A culture sensitive study of the impact of the carthquake that hit Kachchh district in January 2001 has been going on. This study provides an account of the socio-historically rooted suffering and bealing of the survivors over a period of 2 years in post-carthquake Kachchh. An ethnographic approach was adopted which provided the methodological flexibility to incorporate the changing socioeconomic context and its impact on the suffering and healing processes. The paper also sensitises one to the issues of the healing process that is under threat as the social support networks have been devastated by the dynamic socioeconomic forces.

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Examines (a) the determinants of posttraumatic stress, and (b) the impacts of caste status, educational level, and family size on stress disorders. Structured interview sessions were used to obtain data 3 months after the Orissa supercyclone. The sample comprised 130 cyclone exposed praple. Disaster victims experienced more intrusion and arousal symptoms, and less avoidance and numbing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. The avoidance and numbing symptoms were "decisive" symptoms to arrive at the diagnosis of such a stress disorder. Fifty % of the victims suffered from posttraumatic stress. Anxiety and externality of survivors intensified post-tranmatic stress but deprrssion failed to predict such stress. Survivors from low castes, being less educated, and from larger families were more vulnerable to stress and distress than those from high castes, being more educated, and from small families.

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