Web Lecture: Interpretive View

Our web lecture says that the interpretive view of organizational culture is based on the observation that there is more going on in organizations than competing tasks. These approaches to organizational culture seek to understand how organization life is accomplished through communication. Culture is studied as sense making and the aim of research is interpretation. Researchers focus on stories, vocabulary, rituals, and other aspects of culture that reveal how organization members interpret organizational life.

The interpretive view of organizational culture is found meaningful to me because a lot of people stereotype and tend to interpret cultures in different ways. A lot of people see me as a different individual because of who I am yet they don't know anything about me. The lecture states that researchers focus on stories, vocabulary, and rituals in order to reveal how citizens live their lives. In order for me to understand my own culture, I also rely on the same thing that researchers focus on. We view different rituals and interpret them in our own way in order to better understand the culture in our own words.