Organizational Culture as Communication Performance; Ethnography Study in Regional Civil Service Agency of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Abstract

This research starts from the idea an etnografer Clifford Geertz (1973) that metaphore human as the animals that depend on net interest (people are animals suspended in webs of significance). He believes that the new culture formed by diverse fruit design than new members. The assumption that everyone has the perception that date back to the fruit in discussing the interactions that occur in discussing new.

Pacanowsky and Trujillo (1982) using the principles of the science of Ethnography in building theories of organizational culture. According to this theory they posited a broad view about organizational culture (culture is not something an organization has, a culture is something an organization is). Understand the organization is conducting generalization against behaviour or values of the Organization as a whole. Organizational culture encompasses all existing symbol (action, conversation and routines) as well as the meaning of a given member organization toward the symbol. It is believed from observations in favor of observations can be made thick description of all such observations.

In guiding idea Pacanowsky and Trujillo, West and Turner (2007) suggests three basic assumptions in interact. As well as through the performances of communications (communication appearance) disclosed new members can create or show their understanding of a wide range of events in the organization. Pacanowsky and Trujillo States through specific communication shows acupuncture can result in organizational culture that is unique to the organization concerned.

This study uses qualitative methods with interpretive performasi were analyzed with the theory of organizational culture. Through interactions between members in the Regional Employment Board of East Nusa Tenggara and shows the communication done obtained an understanding of the culture of the organization. The results showed that the values of the interaction of liquid invalid constructs-invalid constructs reality that generates new understanding or symbolic discourse that can be used as a benchmark in this new continuity into the future.