Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies
Research, Pedagogy, and Practice
1st Edition
Published on 29. September 2010
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-1-4129-7007-5 (ISBN)
Description
The first text to systematically examine difference as a defining feature of organizational life
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. Ultimately, the book serves to carve out a new agenda for studies of difference and organization, and it challenges instructors and students alike to think about and explore difference in a more complex and productive manner.
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. Ultimately, the book serves to carve out a new agenda for studies of difference and organization, and it challenges instructors and students alike to think about and explore difference in a more complex and productive manner.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
627 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-7007-5 (9781412970075)
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Dennis K. Mumby
Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies
Research, Pedagogy, and Practice
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SAGE Publications Inc
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Dennis K. Mumby is the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Communication at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His research focuses on the communicative dynamics of organizational control and resistance under neoliberalism. He is a Fellow of the International Communication Association, and a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar. He has authored or edited 7 books and over 60 articles in the area of critical organization studies, and his work has appeared in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Management Communication Quarterly, Organization Studies, Organization, and Human Relations. He is past chair of the Organizational Communication Division of NCA, and an 8-time winner of the division's annual research award. He has served as chair of the Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association, and is a recipient of the division's Fredric M. Jablin Award for contributions to the field of organizational communication.
Content
Organizing Difference: An Introduction - Dennis K. Mumby
I. Theorizing Difference and Organization
1. Knowing Work through the Communication of Difference: A Revised Agenda for Difference Studies - Karen Lee Ashcraft
2. Intersecting Difference: A Dialectical Perspective - Linda Putnam, Jody Jahn, Jane Baker
3. Theorizing Difference from Transnational Feminisms - Sarah Dempsey
4. Leadership Discourses of Difference: Executive Coaching and the Alpha Male Syndrome - Gail Fairhurst, Marthe L. Church, Danielle E. Hagan, and Joseph T. Levi
II. Teaching Difference and Organizing
5. Critical Communication Pedagogy as a Framework for Teaching Difference and Organizing - Brenda J. Allen
6. But Society is Beyond ___ism" (?): Teaching how Differences are "Organized" via Institutional Privilege <-->Oppression - Erika Kirby
7. Teaching Difference as Institutional and Making it Personal: Moving Among Personal, Interpersonal, and Institutional Constructions of Difference - Jennifer Mease
8. Difference and cultural identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Pedagogical, theoretical and pragmatic implications of the Josie Bullock case - Shiv Ganesh
III. Applying Difference to Organizational Change
9. Different Ways of Talking about Intervention Goals - John McLellan, Stephen Williams, and Stanley Deetz
10. Intersecting Differences: Organizing [Ourselves] for Social Justice Research with People in Vulnerable Communities - Patricia S. Parker, Elisa Oceguera, and Joaquin Sanchez, Jr.
11. Problematizing Political Economy Differences and their Respective Work-Life Policy Constructions - Patrice M. Buzzanell, Rebecca L. Dohrman, and Suzy D'Enbeau
12. The Worlding of Possibilities in a Collaborative Art Studio: Organizing Embodied Differences with Aesthetic and Dialogic Sensibilities - Lynn M. Harter and William K. Rawlins
I. Theorizing Difference and Organization
1. Knowing Work through the Communication of Difference: A Revised Agenda for Difference Studies - Karen Lee Ashcraft
2. Intersecting Difference: A Dialectical Perspective - Linda Putnam, Jody Jahn, Jane Baker
3. Theorizing Difference from Transnational Feminisms - Sarah Dempsey
4. Leadership Discourses of Difference: Executive Coaching and the Alpha Male Syndrome - Gail Fairhurst, Marthe L. Church, Danielle E. Hagan, and Joseph T. Levi
II. Teaching Difference and Organizing
5. Critical Communication Pedagogy as a Framework for Teaching Difference and Organizing - Brenda J. Allen
6. But Society is Beyond ___ism" (?): Teaching how Differences are "Organized" via Institutional Privilege <-->Oppression - Erika Kirby
7. Teaching Difference as Institutional and Making it Personal: Moving Among Personal, Interpersonal, and Institutional Constructions of Difference - Jennifer Mease
8. Difference and cultural identities in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Pedagogical, theoretical and pragmatic implications of the Josie Bullock case - Shiv Ganesh
III. Applying Difference to Organizational Change
9. Different Ways of Talking about Intervention Goals - John McLellan, Stephen Williams, and Stanley Deetz
10. Intersecting Differences: Organizing [Ourselves] for Social Justice Research with People in Vulnerable Communities - Patricia S. Parker, Elisa Oceguera, and Joaquin Sanchez, Jr.
11. Problematizing Political Economy Differences and their Respective Work-Life Policy Constructions - Patrice M. Buzzanell, Rebecca L. Dohrman, and Suzy D'Enbeau
12. The Worlding of Possibilities in a Collaborative Art Studio: Organizing Embodied Differences with Aesthetic and Dialogic Sensibilities - Lynn M. Harter and William K. Rawlins