SOCIOL 144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Organizational Culture
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Linda smircich"s approaches to organizational culture (asq, 28:3, 1983) Culture is an instrument serving human biological and psychological. The mind generates culture by means of a finite number of rules. Culture is a system of shared symbols and meanings. Symbolic action needs to be interpreted, read or deciphered in order to be understood. Culture is a projection of mind"s universal unconscious infrastructure. Organizations are adaptive organisms existing by process of exchange within the environment. Organization rests in the network of subjective meanings that that organization members share to function in a rule-like manner. Organization is maintained through symbolic modes such as language that that facilitate shared meanings and shared realities. Organizational forms and practices are the manifestations of unconscious processes.
