Organizational Climate in Its Semiotic Aspect: A Postmodern Community College Undergoes Renewal
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- David F. Ayers, Assistant Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The chief purpose of the present study was to chart various institutional discourses relating to the climate at a rural community college undergoing organizational renewal. The researcher hypothesized that members of various subsystems within the institution would differ in the ways they make meaning of the signs and symbols of organizational climate. The findings have significance for both theory and practice. First, a valid understanding of climate within a postmodern reality may require a shift in how researchers assess and define organizational climate. Second, higher education leaders who seek to understand postmodern organization must acknowledge diversity where it exists, particularly when it engenders divergent ways of making sense of leadership behaviors and symbolic actions.
Organizational Climate in Its Semiotic Aspect: A Postmodern Community College Undergoes Renewal
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Community College Review, 33(1)
- Language: English
- Date: 2005
- Keywords
- community college, organizational climate, organizational change, renewal, discourse analysis, postmodern community college, power structure, two year colleges