Experiential Organizing: Pursuing Relational and Bureaucratic Goals Through Symbolically and Experientially Oriented Work
提出体验式组织的理论框架,解释组织如何通过象征性和体验性工作来协调关系与官僚目标,解决实践目标与实际体验之间的错位问题。
Current scholarship on organizational practices that foster a sense of care and collaboration in work relationships has yet to fully account for the potential misalignment between the goals of a given practice and how it is actually experienced. To address this issue, we develop a theoretical framework of experiential organizing, which we define as an iterative process through which positive relational and bureaucratic goals of a practice are pursued via symbolically and experientially oriented work. We offer theory to explain how organizations move through the experiential organizing process, what different types of work are required, and how the different parts of the process inform each other. Experiential organizing offers a holistic approach for organizations to overcome issues of misalignment, thereby mitigating negative outcomes and ensuring that symbolic structures have the intended impact on employee experience.