Inside Organizations: Understanding the Human Dimension

by Michael Owen Jones, Michael Dane Moore, Richard Christopher Snyder

Book Overview

This is the first definitive volume on organizational ethnography, an emerging field in which organizations are studied as human phenomena; unifying the volume is the thesis that organizing is a fundamental human enterprise that is social, symbolic and aesthetic as well as technological and utilitarian. Symbolic interactionism found in sociology, the notion of culture in anthropology, and stories and rituals of folklore and mythology are drawn upon;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803931980
• ISBN13: 9780803931985
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.