Arguing for a feminist appropriation of the organizational culture approach to the study of complex formal organizations, this paper contends that, far from being an alternative approach that facilitates asking radically different questions about organizational life, the organizational culture approach's radical intentions are undermined by the failure to question its own biases. Following an introduction that pinpoints the androcentric and hegemonic nature or the concept of organizational culture, the paper challenges the empiricist methods of traditional organizational communication research and suggests the need for feminist readings that contest the authority of men as the sole authors of cultural texts. The next section of the paper discusses the implicit dualisms inherent in the concept of culture: culture as a rational, public, and male domain is held antithetical to and privileged over nature as the emotional domain, the private sphere, and women. The major section of the paper presents a review of research studies by organizational culture scholars and proposes a feminist criticism of these studies. The following section then offers and discusses alternative research studies by Kathy Ferguson and Angela McRobbie, two feminist scholars. The paper concludes with the presentation of a preliminary agenda for reconstituting the practices and politics of organizational scholarship by developing a feminist discourse commensurate with the radical intent of the organizational culture approach. Notes and extensive references are attached. (NKA)