Neurobiological Foundations of Organizational Culture

The Enlightenment era marked the beginning of scholars turning away from each other and dividing science into specialized and detailed disciplines. While breaking science into smaller parts aimed to deepen and refine knowledge, it caused many losses in the overall understanding of science and created a kind of separation and discontinuity in human knowledge. Excessive fragmentation of sciences led to movements aiming for integration and linking of sciences, resulting in interdisciplinary, multiform, and interconnected sciences. Scholars in the process of knowledge generation concluded that sciences would be more effective in their mission by cooperating with each other. This book is also a combination of organizational culture knowledge with neuroscience and cognitive mind theories. Organizational culture, traditionally described and explained by behavioral theories, now obtains a more complete picture through the help of neuroscience by discussing reflexivity, perceptions, and emotions as mental processes. The black box of stimulus-response is now opened, revealing new aspects of organizational culture that facilitate education, research, and application. Therefore, teachers, researchers, practitioners, and beneficiaries of organizational culture will gain an expanded understanding based on this integration and be more successful in achieving their goals. The linkage of these two sciences in the present work creates spectacular perspectives on organizational culture and neuroscience, increasing the motivation to study the book and making its complexities comprehensible.