Organizational Dress as a Symbol of Multilayered Social Identities
基于一家大型医院康复科的定性数据,揭示组织成员如何通过着装来表达和协商单位及护理职业混合身份中的复杂问题,表明组织着装这一看似简单的符号实际上揭示了社会身份的多层含义。
Qualitative data collected in a rehabilitation unit of a large hospital reveal how organization members used dress to represent and negotiate a web of issues inherent to the hybrid identities of the unit and the nursing profession. As different issues were considered, dress took on various and often contradictory meanings. Thus, a seemingly simple symbol such as organizational dress is shown here to reveal the complex notion of social identity, which is argued to comprise multiple layers of meaning. We discuss the implications of this thesis for theory and research on organizational identity, organizational symbolism, organizational dress, and ambivalence.