02932nam a22004572u 4500 5480354 BD-DhUL 20170102162512.0 he u||024|||| 080220s1987 xxu ||| b ||| | eng d ED283229 ERIC ericd eng BD-DhUL MvI 813.54 HUW mfm Leontiou, Janet Farrell. the Way It Is / [microform] : The Construction of Organizational Culture / Janet Farrell Leontiou. [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1970. 42 p. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Communication Association (78th, Syracuse, NY, May 18-21, 1987). ericd An ethnographic study examined the sense of the social world as a natural order produced by the organizational members of one sales team at a New York media representation firm. Communication was observed and recorded over a ten-week period, and members of the sales team were interviewed during an additional two-week period. Results indicated that sexism had achieved the status of fact within the organization's culture. Considerable observation of the organizational culture of the subject sales team showed that there is not one culture but two--the corporate culture and the female subculture of the sales assistants. The complementary nature of the female subculture and the corporate culture is a key to how the sense of the natural order is preserved by the organizational members, providing them with a sense of continuity, balance, and completeness, while, at the same time, furnishing the sales assistants with a domain and a set of activities of their own. Findings suggest that the preservation and maintenance of the existing order of the subject sales team is a social accomplishment produced by both the corporate culture and the female subculture. (Extensive footnotes and a bibliography are appended.) (NKA) Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive. Communication Research. ericd Cultural Context. ericd Employee Attitudes. ericd Employer Employee Relationship. ericd Ethnography. ericd Females. ericd Job Satisfaction. ericd Organizational Climate. ericd Organizational Communication. ericd Sex Bias. ericd Social Structure. ericd Vertical Organization. ericd Work Environment. ericd Hierarchical Control Organizational Culture Organizational Research Reference Materials, Vocabularies/Classifications. ericd Speeches/Meeting Papers. ericd ddc BK ANL mc 2253 ED283229 77000000288423 145489 145489 0 0 ddc 0 813_540000000000000_HUW 0 NFIC 272948 DUL DUL GEN 2017-01-02 813.54 HUW A125467 2017-01-02 2017-01-02 BK