Organizational aesthetics experiences and interprets organizational life from an aesthetic perspective, focusing on how materials and material practices in organizations produce knowledge by stimulating individual sensory reactions. Previous studies are dominated by the rationalist paradigm and focus on the instrumental perspective of organization life, ignoring the emotional and cognitive reactions of individuals to the organizational material environment. In recent years, more and more scholars have begun to discuss the psychological feelings caused by materials and their impact on organizational behavior from the aesthetic perspective, but these studies are fragmentary.

Therefore, this paper collects and sorts out the important theoretical and empirical literature in the field of organizational aesthetics, and finds that most research focuses on the following four types of research objects: spatial practice, personalized objects and symbol display, clothing management, and work tools and product usage.

Then, based on the aesthetic experience process, this paper constructs a systematic research framework to explore the “dynamic mechanism–reaction mechanism–effect result” of organizational aesthetics, and further analyzes the research methods of organizational aesthetics.

Finally, this paper looks forward to how to further deepen the research on organizational aesthetics from the perspectives of new theories, new contexts, and new methods in management. It calls on the theoretical and practical circles to pay attention to the important value of organizational aesthetics, promote the sustainable development of organizational aesthetics, and build a beautiful and harmonious organizational ecological environment.