ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AS POETRY

Ritual, dance, song, and other types of ceremonial activities are a significant part of the practice of many of the world's religions. The religion called capitalism, which pervades the modern, westernized business organization, involves similar ceremonies. The symbolic actions of business acto...

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Published inAllied Academies International Conference. Academy of Organizational Culture, Communications and Conflict. Proceedings Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 51
Main Author McCullough, P Michael
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Arden Jordan Whitney Enterprises, Inc 01.01.2006
Subjects
Annual reports
Archetypes (Psychology)
Capitalism
Cities
Corporate culture
Dance
International
Poetry
Poets
Prose
Religion
Rites & ceremonies
Spirituality
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Summary:Ritual, dance, song, and other types of ceremonial activities are a significant part of the practice of many of the world's religions. The religion called capitalism, which pervades the modern, westernized business organization, involves similar ceremonies. The symbolic actions of business actors also emanate from the human requirement for the spiritual. Many of these spirit-based symbolic actions are founded in a paternal order, that is, they are distinctively male. Perhaps, the same archetypes that incite poetry create angst enough to inspire the organization of human activity. Perhaps for these reasons, poetry can be seen as implicit to culture as prose is explicit to law. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]