Introducing 

Prezi AI.

Your new presentation assistant.

Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.

Loading…
Transcript

Charmayne

Symbols & Culture

“A symbol is something that stands for or suggests something else; it conveys socially constructed means beyond its intrinsic or obvious functional use” (p. 252)

“The symbolic frame interprets and illuminates the basic issues of meaning and belief that make symbols so powerful” (p. 253).

5 Assumptions:

  • 1 What it means is more important than what happens

  • 2 Activities and events are interpreted differently by individuals based on their own experiences

  • 3 People “create symbols to resolve confusion, find direction, and anchor hope and faith” (p. 253)

  • 4 What is expressed in activities is often more important than what is produced

  • 5 Organizations and people use culture to unite and connect

Uses in Education

Indoctrinate new employees

Sarah

Play,

spirit

and culture

How one becomes a member

Diversity

Examples (not orders)

Specialized Language

Stories carry history,

values,

and

reinforce group identity

Laurel

“The symbolic frame recasts organizational structures and processes as drama that expresses our fears, joys, and expectations.

(p. 295)

Theater arouses emotions and kindles our spirit or reveals our fears.

(p. 295)

It reduces bewilderment and soothes open wounds.

(p. 295)

It provides a shared basis for understanding the present and imagining a more promising tomorrow.”

(p. 295)

Dramaturgical Theory:Focus on social interaction among individuals and on internal situations

Institutional Theory:Focus on presenting the system of organization to their publics

Glenna

The leader must:

  • Be credible in strategies
  • Give meaning to others
  • Provide inspiration
  • Project that the organization has a unique identity and that each has an important role

Must articulate the organization's unique traditions and mission, and how it lives its values.

Images were obtained from the following:

Happy Towers:http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/09/the_wonkettes_9.html

Skyline: http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0311600/After911Page.htm

Cape: http://www.austin360.com/

Fairy Tale: http://thehivestore.com/

Graduation: http://hotgiftideastips.com/

Metaphor: http://thehiddenpersuader-english.blogspot.com/2009/10/power-of-good-metaphor.html

Partridge square http://www.uwsp.edu/education/lwilson/links/MCDD00866_0000[1].gif

Book: http://www.braille200.ca/images/stories1_1.jpg

Soul http://www.yaledramacoalition.org/show_images/144/Soul.jpg

Spirit http://www.nativesculptures.ca/images/Paintings/spiritual%20realm.jpg

Curtains http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAlGRZh8naM&feature=related

Costumeshttp://media.photobucket.com/image/costume%20design%20sketches/Charmalade/S5000091.jpg

Script: http://www.newwritingsouth.com/images/script%20on%20grass.jpg

Refurbished: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QEBR616wZSk/SwnZxacVI4I/AAAAAAAABsw/HINrUNKXBYU/s1600/IMG_4140.jpg

Stage: http://silverdart.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/spotlight.jpg

All images were accessed by using search strategies in Google Images.

Symbolic Frame

presented by

What is

your product/service?

Sarah Cox

Glenna Decker

Laurel Laukhuf

Charmayne Mulligan

Who is

your market?

Thank you to Raf Stevens

for the permission to use this template

Who is

behind the company?

What is

your

competitive advantage?

Who is

your competition?

"Meaning is not given to us, we have to make it"

p. 240

Challenge:

Must be meaningful. Otherwise

  • Symbols can antagonize
  • Empty attempts at symbolism and events backfire

Value of Symbolic Frame -

looking insight into fundamental issues of

meaning

and belief,

and possibilities for

bonding

into a cohesive group

with a shared mission.

Effectiveness depends on the artistry of the user.

"Symbols are sometimes mere fluff or camouflage, the tools of a scoundrel who seeks to manipulate the unsuspecting, or an awkward attempt that embarrasses more than energizes people at work."

Leadership is much more art than science

Organization

as Theater

(pgs. 301-306)

Team building is a spiritual undertaking

“The symbolic view approaches structure as a stage design: an arrangement of space, lighting, props, and costumes that make the drama vivid and credible to its audience.”

(p. 299)

Leader's Role:

  • Reflect prevailing social values and myths
  • Conform to changing social ideas
  • Create the stage

“Theatrical refurbishing” is needed when the institution or its environment changes.

Process:

Scripts,

Stage markings

Leader's Role:

Direct where people go and how they should act

Dictate what behaviors attain results

Settings and costumes should be appropriate.

Leader's Role:

  • Create the right environment
  • Set the tone
  • Reflect the culture

Humor and play reduce tension and encourage creativity

Ritual & Ceremony

Ritual and ceremony lifts spirits and reinforce values

Myths, Vision, Values

Semper Fi

More than a motto:

A way of life

Heroes & Heroines

Success

Share stories (promote institution, build loyalty, celebrate)

“the way we do things around here”

Develop rituals (initiation, rite of passage)

Create common symbols

Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi