Studying Organizational Symbolism: What, How, Why?

by Michael Owen Jones

Book Overview

Analyzing the way organizations work through the study of the symbols connected to them, this book will be of interest to anyone involved in organization studies.

The author discusses the most obvious symbolic aspects of organizations - corporate logos, office sizes, use of titles - as well as focusing on the more subtle aspect of expressive forms of symbolism such as storytelling, institutional jargon and workplace personalization, among...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761902201
• ISBN13: 9780761902201
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"