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Purpose: Organizations are systems of shared meanings that are developed and sustained through symbolic processes. Organizational meaning can be achieved through symbols. Symbolism expresses the ideology or value system of an organization, providing a prism through which organizational stakeholders can share their experiences, successful actions, as well as ineffective aspects of organizational work with their feelings. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of recognizing and understanding symbolism in government organizations: analyzing influential factors and consequences
Methodology:This research is applied in terms of purpose and survey and exploratory in terms of data collection method, and has a deductive-inductive research philosophy. The statistical population of the study is experts, including senior managers and human resources managers of government organizations, whose sample members were selected using purposive sampling and based on the principle of theoretical saturation In this study, the content analysis and coding method was used for data analysis in the qualitative part and the fuzzy cognitive map method was used in the quantitative part
Findings: In this study, the findings of the qualitative part include identifying the types of effective factors and consequences of organizational symbolism, and the findings of the quantitative part are related to prioritizing these factors. Accordingly, the most important factors affecting organizational symbolism are transformational leadership style, attention to international standards, creating a culture of sharing knowledge and experiences, and the most important consequences of organizational symbolism are increasing the organization's income, facilitating internal communications, and strengthening and stabilizing organizational values in the organization
Methodology:This research is applied in terms of purpose and survey and exploratory in terms of data collection method, and has a deductive-inductive research philosophy. The statistical population of the study is experts, including senior managers and human resources managers of government organizations, whose sample members were selected using purposive sampling and based on the principle of theoretical saturation In this study, the content analysis and coding method was used for data analysis in the qualitative part and the fuzzy cognitive map method was used in the quantitative part
Findings: In this study, the findings of the qualitative part include identifying the types of effective factors and consequences of organizational symbolism, and the findings of the quantitative part are related to prioritizing these factors. Accordingly, the most important factors affecting organizational symbolism are transformational leadership style, attention to international standards, creating a culture of sharing knowledge and experiences, and the most important consequences of organizational symbolism are increasing the organization's income, facilitating internal communications, and strengthening and stabilizing organizational values in the organization
Keywords: Symbolism, Organizational Symbolism, Government Organizations, Coding, fuzzy cognitive map
Type of Study: Applicable |
Subject:
Administrative structures
Received: Jul 23 2025 | Accepted: Sep 16 2025
Received: Jul 23 2025 | Accepted: Sep 16 2025
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