How does an interpersonal communication theorist research such a large media event as the Enron and Worldcom scandal? If you are Tim Hallet you use the Symbolic Interaction Theory to determine the downfall from its different approaches on organizational culture. By not focusing so much on Enron, but that of the symbolic overturn of Enron's financial advisor Arthur Anderson and Co.
             The main focus of Tim Halletts article is to spread light on corporate scandal and how they have affected an increase in the revalence of organizational culture. The study Hallett conducts has two separate approaches. One envisions culture as beliefs and values held by subjects in the organization. "The second approach removes organizational culture from the subjective minds of actors and places it in public by emphasizing espoused beliefs, ideologies, stories, myths, rituals, ceremonies, and artifacts (129)."
             Hallett argues that reconceptualized organizational culture as a negotiated order that emerges through interactions between participants, an order influenced by those with the symbolic power to define the situation.
             Hallett test his theory by devising many self-accumulated vocabulary terminologies, some even defined by himself, and entering them into explanations. One such vocabulary word is "habitus," defined as "Systems of durable, transposable dispositions, structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures (130)." Hallett writes, "I define organizational culture as a negotiated order that emerges through the interaction between actors, a negotiated order influenced in particular by people with symbolic power- the power to define the situation in which interactions take place (130)."
             The main example Hallett uses for testing his view on organizational culture is Arthur Anderson and Company. As background for the compan
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