Speaking With One Voice: Multivocality and Univocality in Organizing

ISBN-13: 9780367264529 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 186 str.

Chantal Benoit-Barn?; Thomas Martine

Opis

This book explores the dynamics and challenges that underlie the ability of organizations to speak with one voice and offers a thorough and comprehensive investigation of the dynamics between multivocality and univocality in the organizing of various collectives.

Spis treści

1. Voice: A Metaphor and Its Significance for Organizational Communication;  2. Authority-in-Action: How Voices Are Negotiated through Idiomatic Formulations during Organizational Downsizing;  3. "I’m just saying": Multivocal Organizing in a Community Health Initiative;  4. Finding the Voice of a Protest: Negotiating Authority Among the Multiplicity of Voices in a Pro-Refugee Demonstration;  5. Amplifying Voices: Hip Hop as a Mode of Engagement for Community Organizing in the Context of the Black Lives Matter Movement;  6. Taking a Relational Approach to Rhetoric and Discourse: (Re)Considering the Voices of Recycling and Sustainability;  7. Tensional Dynamics in Discussions of Social Responsibility: Voice Mobilization, Concern Negotiation, and Organizational Boundaries Co-Creation;  8. "Centering [Voices from] the Margins": Negotiating Intersectionality as a Consultative Framework;  Conclusion: Speaking with One Voice Is a Specific Form of Multivocality