Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research: Multiple Perspectives is a book unlike any in the field. Each chapter is written by a prominent scholar who presents a theoretical perspective and discusses how he or she engages with it, personally examining what it means to study organizations. Rejecting the traditional model of a reader, this volume demonstrates the intimate connections among theory, research, and personal experience. Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research is an indispensable resource for anyone wishing to be familiar with current trends in...
Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research: Multiple Perspectives is a book unlike any in the field. Each chapter is written by a pr...
Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research: Multiple Perspectives is a book unlike any in the field. Each chapter is written by a prominent scholar who presents a theoretical perspective and discusses how he or she engages with it, personally examining what it means to study organizations. Rejecting the traditional model of a reader, this volume demonstrates the intimate connections among theory, research, and personal experience. Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research is an indispensable resource for anyone wishing to be familiar with current trends in...
Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research: Multiple Perspectives is a book unlike any in the field. Each chapter is written by a pr...
In writing on feminist theory and sex roles in the workplace, communication scholars Ashcraft (U. of Utah) and Mumby (U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) de-marginalize feminist discourse in organizational studies. They review the status of gendered organizational studies and present a gendered comm
In writing on feminist theory and sex roles in the workplace, communication scholars Ashcraft (U. of Utah) and Mumby (U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hil...
What is the relationship between narrative, society and the forms of control that function in society? This critical analysis examines the role of narrative in the creation of various social realities. The central theme is that narrative is a pervasive form of human communication integral to the production and shaping of social order. Each chapter provides both a theoretical framework and an examination of narratives in a range of communication contexts - interpersonal, small group, organizational and mass media - illustrating the far-reaching impact of narrative on our lives and social...
What is the relationship between narrative, society and the forms of control that function in society? This critical analysis examines the role of nar...
Bringing together prominent scholars in the field of organizational communication to examine the relationship between difference and organizing, this book explores the concept in a comprehensive and systematic way. Part I explores numerous ways in which difference can be critically examined as a communicative phenomenon; Part II addresses how best to teach difference, including pragmatic recommendations for explaining the topic and making it relevant to students' lives; and Part III broadly examines difference as a central construct in applied organizational communication research....
Bringing together prominent scholars in the field of organizational communication to examine the relationship between difference and organizing, this ...
Given the increasingly diverse terrain of 21st century organizational life, research-ers and students are exploring theoretical frameworks and analytic tools that attempt to understand organizing proc-esses in all of their richness and complexity. As such, there is widespread recognition of the need to ex-amine organizations as constructed through, and repositories of, difference; that is, as complex intersec-tions of discourses of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other markers of difference. In this sense, organi-zations are one of the principal sites where differences that make a...
Given the increasingly diverse terrain of 21st century organizational life, research-ers and students are exploring theoretical frameworks and analyti...
