喝啤酒与理解组织文化的具身性

Drinking beer and understanding organizational culture embodiment

HUMAN RELATIONS · 2008
被引 67
人大 AFT50ABS 4

中文导读

从具身视角出发,结合人类学田野研究和组织民族志(同事下班后喝啤酒的仪式),论证组织文化首先在员工的即时体验中产生意义,不仅是认知表征,更是感知具身体验。

Abstract

Although organizational researchers have gained in terms of different perspectives of thought and reflexivity regarding the subject of organizational culture, they have neglected studying the embodied dimension of organizational culture. The purpose of this article is to use embodiment perspective to enlighten understanding of organizational culture. We do that by giving special attention to: a) a pioneering empirical anthropological study that deals with the culture—embodiment relationship and b) an organizational ethnography in which work colleagues engage in the after-work beer drinking ritual. This double emphasis suggests that organizational life become first meaningful in the experiential immediacy of employees and organization. In this very moment organizational culture signification is not yet representational, but perceptual. Thus, the main contribution of this research is to show that organizational culture is more than a cognitive-representational abstraction: it is also a perceptual-embodied experience.

组织文化组织研究具身认知组织学习民族志