Symbolic Frame: The US Army
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Apply the Symbolic Frame to the United States Army. After giving a brief description of the United States Army- apply the Symbolic Frame to the organization, analyzing the ways in which two or three symbolic characteristics you have identified provide meaning for your organization's members.
1. Briefly describe your organization - name, what it does, size (number of employees, annual revenue, relative market share, etc.);
2. Choose 2 or 3 examples of the Symbolic Frame (value, beliefs, rituals, stories, heroes, etc.), and assess how they create meaning for the organization's members.
3. Which of the examples you have provided do you believe has the greatest influence on the organization-at-large? Why?
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This posting applies Bolman and Deal's Symbolic Frame to the US Army.
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1. The United States Army aims to be placed in, combating, and victorious in wars for the United States. The US Army will exercise planned, prompt, and resolute supremacy on land in all conflicts in which the US is involved. The US Army came into existence on 14th June 1775 and has 485,000 regular army personnel according to 2021 figures, and 2021 budget the Army's budget request of $173 billion dropped $3.6 billion from the enacted actual 2021 budget.
2. The first example of the symbolic frame is the mission of the US Army" To deploy, fight and win our nation's wars by providing ready, prompt, and sustained land dominance by the Army forces across the full spectrum of conflict as part of the joint force". The mission of the US Army creates meaning for the soldiers because it gives them the message that the US Army can defeat enemy ground forces and relentlessly seize and control the prized territory of the enemy including its resources, land, and population. In other words, the Army is ready to deploy, battle, and triumph decisively against any enemy, anytime, and anywhere (a). The mission of the US Army gives a sense of purpose and meaning to the work of the army. The mission is taught to the recruits when they first join the US Army. That the Army is ready to deploy, fight, and win creates a motivating vision and urges the personnel to exemplary performance. The mission of the US Army is to get people excited and committed to the Army's ...
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