Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons from the African American Organization

ISBN-13: 9780805837285 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 354 str.

Anne Maydan Nicotera; Marcia J. Clinkscales; Felicia R. Walker

Opis

Understanding Organizations Through Culture and Structure offers a new view of organizations and the communication processes within them. Presenting original research conducted by the authors, this volume examines problems related to task and relational orientations as they relate to organizational structure and function within predominantly African-American organizations. It also emphasizes the development of alternative theories and/or models of organizing which are rooted in African-American culture, such as team-based versus hierarchy-based interactions. The first five chapters consist of research that generates several emergent models with significant implications for organizational systems. The last two chapters apply the findings in a broader analysis of contemporary practices in organizational restructuring. The authors then develop a set of humanistically-based models that illustrate the ways in which the particular date--analyzed through a particular approach--reveal the hidden cultural processes that suffuse organizational life and manifest communicatively.

Recenzje

"...this book merits attentive reading and close study by anyone concerned with the successful development of African-American organizations of all kinds. Although theoretical and 'only' a beginning, it promises the possibility of development towards real breakthroughs in areas of American life where new beginnings and real breakthroughs are desperately needed."
—Communication Research Trends

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Culture and Organization. Communication and Two Predominantly African-American Organizations. African-American Rules and Resources. Interpenetration of Contradicting Structures: The Divergent Organization. The Divergent Organization's Communicative Downward Spiral. Theoretic Applications. Where Do We Go From Here?: Conceptualizing the Convergent Organization. Epilogue: The Lessons Learned.

O autorze

Anne Maydan Nicotera, Marcia J. Clinkscales, Felicia R. Walker