A Gift from the Culture
"A Gift from the Culture", published in 1987, is a short work of space opera, by the Scottish science fiction author Iain M. Banks. The story is an early venture into the "complex and unusual and very distant" setting of the Culture, which Banks would further develop through various of full length novels, stories, and his essay "A Few Notes on the Culture".
Organizational culture
The term of culture in the organizational context was first introduced by Dr. Elliott Jaques in his book "The Changing Culture of a Factory", in 1951. This is the published report of "a case study of developments in the social life of one industrial community between April, 1948 and November 1950". The "case" is a publicly held British company engaged principally in the manufacture, sale, and servicing of metal bearings. The study is concerned with the description, analysis, and development of the corporate group behaviours.