Author : Michael Owen Jones
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 1996-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761902201
Jones discusses obvious symbols such as corporate logos, office sizes and use of titles, as well as focusing on the more subtle aspect of expressive forms of symbolism such as storytelling, institutional jargon and workplace personalisation.
Author : Aydin, ?ule
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1799814904
Improving positive and reducing negative organizational behaviors in businesses are important in terms of organizational success as this will lead to an increase in employee organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Considering that the tourism industry has such a dynamic structure, it is obvious that behavioral issues in the industry need to be scrutinized. Organizational Behavior Challenges in the Tourism Industry is a collection of innovative research that aims to explore relevant theoretical frameworks in terms of organizational behavior issues and provides the opportunity for tourism organizations to understand their employees’ behavior. While highlighting topics including emotional labor, deviant behavior, and organizational cynicism, this book is ideally designed for hotel managers, tour directors, restaurateurs, travel agents, business managers, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students.
Author : Mats Alvesson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3110874318
Corporate Culture and Organizational Symbolism.
Author : Anat Rafaeli
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134811306
Artifacts in organizations are ubiquitous but often overlooked. The chapters in this book illustrate that artifacts are everywhere in organizational life. They prevail in how offices are decorated, language is used, business cards are designed, and office cartoons are displayed. In addition, artifacts can be seen in the name of an organization and its employees, products, buildings, processes, and contracts, and they represent people, organizations, and professions. Artifacts and Organizations suggests that artifacts are neither superficial nor pertinent only to organizational culture. They are relevant to a rich and diverse set of organizational processes within and across multiple levels of analysis. Artifacts are shown to be integral to identity, sense-giving and sense-making processes, interpretation and negotiation, legitimacy, and branding. The book seeks to communicate that artifacts are often much more than what is currently recognized in organizational research. The four sections of this edited volume address various aspects of what is known about and known through artifacts. Together, the full set of chapters challenge the field to move beyond a narrow conceptualization and understanding of artifacts in organizations. This book leads students to embrace the full complexity and richness of artifacts. In addition, the text seeks to inspire those who focus on artifacts as symbols to delve deeper into the complexities of artifacts-in-use, for individuals, organizations, and institutions.
Author : Barry A. Turner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 311085161X
Author : Professor Silvia Gherardi
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 1995-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446228609
The symbolic order of gender in organizations - how gender relations are culturally and discursively produced and reproduced, and how they might be done' differently, are explored in this book. Silvia Gherardi focuses on the relationship between gender, power and culture in organizations and on the need to come to grips with the pervasive, elusive and ambiguous nature of gender in work settings. She introduces two key metaphors. The first is of the sexual contract, which centres on the sexuality of organizations and static' gender difference. The second, of the alchemic wedding, highlights a plurality of cultural models of femaleness and of women/work relationships, and processes of dynamic difference, transformation and transcendence. Gherardi continues her examination of the construction of gender relations in the workplace through a series of rich and illuminating stories which also draw on various symbolic archetypes as powerful forms of cultural expression. The final section of the book looks at possibilities for change, developing in particular a concept of different forms of gender citizenship of organizations.
Author : Thomas B. Lawrence
Publisher :
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198840020
This book proposes a perspective of social-symbolic work that integrates diverse streams of research to examine how people purposefully work to construct organizational life and the identities, careers, boundaries, strategies, and social practices that define their organizations.
Author : Agnes Bolsø
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Body image
ISBN : 9781138233706
Despite all efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations. This collection proposes a transdisciplinary feminist perspective to explore the complex nature of the gendered politics of organizations.
Author : James G. Hunt
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 1991-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
"... Many practitioners, consultants, and researchers have recognized that there are differing leadership requirements by organizational level. In this volume Hunt proposes a new leadership synthesis that provides an expanded view of leadership based on: a multiple organizational-level approach, and an emphasis on the differing leadership realities involved in the way we gain, use, and assess leadership knowledge in such a multiple-level approach. Hunt's extended multiple-level synthesis draws on a wide range of conceptual and empirical literature. It also emphasizes the importance of not only strategic-level leadership but indirect effects felt deep within the organization. A sophisticated new look at leadership, Leadership: A New Synthesis provides cutting edge material and extensive references for researchers, scholars, advanced graduate students, and relatively sophisticated practitioners." - Publisher.
Author : Philip Hancock
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 2001-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780761959441
Work, Postmodernism and Organization provides a wide-ranging and very accessible introduction to postmodern theory and its relevance for the cultural world of the work organization. The book provides a critical review of the debates that have shaped organization theory over the past decade, making clear the meaning and significance of postmodern ideas for contemporary organization theory and practice. Work, Postmodernism and Organization will provide valuable material to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of organization theory, organizational behaviour, industrial sociology, and more general business, management and sociology courses.
