The Tacit OrganizationPart of a series which provides contemporary studies on applied behavioural science, this volume focuses on the tacit organization. Topics include metapattern in the culture of organizations; the managerial metamyth in children's literature; and the symbolic approach to the study of organizations. |
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No longer in a merely physical universe , man lives in a symbolic universe .
Language , myth , art and religion are parts of this universe . They are the varied
threads which weave the symbolic net , the tangled web of human experience .
No longer in a merely physical universe , man lives in a symbolic universe .
Language , myth , art and religion are parts of this universe . They are the varied
threads which weave the symbolic net , the tangled web of human experience .
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expressed in language , stories , ritual , and other symbolic forms , that transcend
the idiosyncrasies of any particular organization , but that inform the symbol
systems of some or all of them . This system of metamyths provides people with a
...
expressed in language , stories , ritual , and other symbolic forms , that transcend
the idiosyncrasies of any particular organization , but that inform the symbol
systems of some or all of them . This system of metamyths provides people with a
...
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Instead , the metamyth and the stories comprise a group of images - symbolic
baggage , widely dispersed in the culture , that try to define organizational life in
so compelling and continual a fashion that the images are thought to be ...
Instead , the metamyth and the stories comprise a group of images - symbolic
baggage , widely dispersed in the culture , that try to define organizational life in
so compelling and continual a fashion that the images are thought to be ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Metamyth in the Culture of Organizations | 39 |
The Managerial Metamyth in Childrens Literature | 57 |
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| Title | The Tacit Organization Volume 8 of Contemporary studies in applied behavioral science Volume 8 of Tcg Translations |
| Authors | Virginia Hill Ingersoll, Guy B. Adams |
| Publisher | JAI Press, 1992 |
| ISBN | 155938297X, 9781559382977 |
| Length | 280 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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