Culture des organisations
dominant focusing, international tendencies, and new analytical proposals
Keywords:
Organizational culture, Organizational symbolism, The sociology of organizations, ManagerialismAbstract
Both culture and organizational symbolism represent nowadays a solid field of study marked by multiple disciplinary contributions and by several theoretical agendas. Having analyzed the diversity of studies produced in the last few decades in the international level, we have identified two competing distinct theoretical studies on approaching organizational culture: the integrator movement, as a hegemonic referential, and, as a countercurrent, the critical movement. If, on the one hand some more managing and integrating perspectives support that integrating cultures will favor the building of excellence and organizational competitiveness, on the other hand critical and reasoning perspectives will invest in the study of processes of construction and cultural manifestation, relativizing its usage as a technique in service of productivity. The central objective of this article consists in presenting a theoretical-empirical model to analyze cultural and symbolic dimensions of organizations that will allow apprehending the current processes of ongoing changes in labor organizations.Downloads
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