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Office Signs: Reflectors Of Organizational Culture, Melvin Leon Jeppson
Office Signs: Reflectors Of Organizational Culture, Melvin Leon Jeppson
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Social scientists widely believe that symbols can reveal important information about personalities, values, beliefs and characteristics of the communicator. Although scholars from fields such as semiology, psychology, sociology and anthropology have analyzed symbols and the messages they reveal as cultural indicators, few communication researchers have studied organizational symbols as organizational cultural indicators. In an article entitled, "Organizational Symbolism: A Topic to Expand Organizational Analysis," Dandridge, Mitroff and Joyce chastened communication researchers for overlooking a wealth of organizational data available through the study of organizational symbols. Stephen R. Barley supported these claims when he wrote that culture is embodied in and …