Symbols of organisational culture: describing and prescribing gender integration of navy ships
Symbols of organisational culture: describing and prescribing gender integration of navy ships
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组织文化的象征：描述和规定海军舰艇的性别融合
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2008
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G. Finchilescu
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C. V. Van Wijk;G. Finchilescu
组织文化的象征可以描述和规定组织内的人类行为。本文探讨了南非海军舰艇通过使用军事文化符号的性别融合的经验。通过访谈和焦点小组收集了女性和男性水手的描述，在他们的船只性别融合18个月后，揭示了仪式，隐喻，人工制品和物理空间的象征性使用。军事组织通常不允许偏离其霸权男性取向或官方的性别支持政策。为了表达对性别融合的抵制或接受，水手们使用公认的（海军）文化象征来秘密地传达和执行他们的相对位置。仪式被用来表达包容和传达组织规范，而隐喻则反映了舰队中的矛盾心理。此外，由于隐喻是从熟悉的图像中构建的，因此它们可以调节新情况下的互动。制服是压迫和抵抗妇女的组织文物。在海军舰艇性别融合的背景下，对企业空间的使用获得了不同的意义，既有抵制也有接受。本文最后讨论了一些问题，从描述性和规范性使用这些符号-特别是表达和维护身份，以及在不熟悉的情况下的行为规范。
The symbols of organisation culture can both describe and prescribe human behaviour within that organisation. This paper examines experiences of gender integration of South African Navy ships through the use of symbols of military culture. Accounts from female and male sailors were collected through interviews and focus groups, 18 months after the gender integration of their ships, and revealed the symbolic use of rituals, metaphors, artefacts and physical space. Military organisations typically do not allow deviations from either their hegemonic masculine orientation, or official gender-supportive policies. To express either resistance or acceptance of gender integration, sailors used accepted (naval) cultural symbolism to covertly communicate and enforce their relative positions. Rituals were used as expression of inclusion and to communicate organisational norms, while metaphors reflected the ambivalence in the fleet. Further, as metaphors were constructed from familiar images, they served to regulate interaction in novel situations. Uniforms acted as organisational artefacts of oppression and resistance to women. The use of corporate space acquired different meanings, of both resistance and acceptance, within the context of gender integration of naval ships. The paper concludes by discussing some issues that arose from both the descriptive and prescriptive use of these symbols – in particular for the expression and maintenance of identity, and for the regulation of behaviour in unfamiliar situations.