Humorous Organizing

ISBN-13: 9783836436427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 396 str.

Owen Hanley Lynch

Opis

This book encourages us to take humor at work seriously. Although humor isusually associated with trivial or non-serious banter; it is a significant factor inthe construction of organizational culture. This book provides an experiencebased organizational account of how organizations are produced and reproduced,as well as how organizational interaction is coupled with structure(organizational rules and resources). It is based on two ethnographic studies:the first, a year-long study of a hotel kitchen, and the second, a three-yearstudy of a private boarding school. This long term examination of anorganizations interaction is used to illustrate how organizational interactionproduces the duality of organizational structuration over time. An ethnographiccommunication-focused approach provides methods for recognizingmultiple sites and levels of the structuration process. As a result, thisapproach provides a major contribution to understanding the process ofstructuration through agents actions in the context of their organizationalculture. This book will appeal to those interested in the nuance and complexityof workplace interaction; specifically it is addressed to students and researchersin management, sociology, organizational and communicationstudies.