Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Business Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
2 Ph.D.Candidate, Faculty of Management, Lorestan University, Khorram Abad, Iran
Abstract
Organizational symbols are known as symbolic textures that form culture and play an important role in establishing and institutionalizing organizational values and norms, so that by integrating and validating the usual norms, creating organizational unity and emphasizing the goals of the organization, it gives meaning, structuring and building ideology. Therefore, the current research was carried out with the aim of identifying and analyzing the causes of tendency towards symbolism and its consequences. The present research is an exploratory research in terms of practical purpose in terms of gathering information. Also, this research is a type of mixed qualitative and quantitative research based on comparative and inductive philosophy. The statistical population of the research is the experts who were selected by purposeful sampling and based on the principle of theoretical adequacy. The data collection tool is in the qualitative part of the interview, whose validity and reliability were confirmed using content validity and theoretical validity and intra-coder and inter-coder reliability methods.
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