Organisational Induction: The Re‐creation of Order and the Re‐reading of Discourse

Abstract

In this article I attempt a re‐conceptualisation of the process of organisational induction, borrowing concepts from discourse analysis, and Lévi‐Strauss's structuralism in particular. It is argued that previous treatments of induction have concentrated on the means by which “culture” is transmitted, and to a much lesser degree on how it is received. What is required is a treatment which recognises the creativity involved in both producing an organisational image and in interpreting it — that “culture” is created both by organisational authors and readers, inductors and inductees, managers and workers.

Citation

Linstead, S. (1985), "Organisational Induction: The Re‐creation of Order and the Re‐reading of Discourse", Personnel Review, Vol. 14 No. 1, pp. 3-11. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055507