Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization (Routledge Communication Series) - Hardcover

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805837280 ISBN 13: 9780805837285

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization presents an innovative view of organizations and the communication processes that constitute them. Arguing that human beings are communicatively embedded in their cultures, Anne Maydan Nicotera and Marcia J. Clinkscales, working with Felicia R. Walker, examine issues concerning task and relational orientations and the ways they and other cultural dimensions connect with organizational structure and function for predominantly African American organizations. Utilizing the results of their own research on organizations, they develop a set of humanistically-based models that illustrate how hidden cultural processes suffuse organizational life and are manifest through communication.

Emphasizing the development of alternative theories and models of organizing which are rooted in African-American culture, such as team-based versus hierarchy-based interactions, this book explores such organizational functions as leadership and management, power, authority and control, communication and interpersonal dynamics, and cultural identity and human development. Applying their findings in a broader analysis of contemporary practices in organizational restructuring, the authors present research that serves as the foundation for generating several emergent models with significant implications for organizational systems.

Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure stimulates and inspires current researchers of organizational communication, and is certain to raise greater awareness of the operation of culture in organizing. The text is intended for scholars and students in organizational communication, management, organizational psychology, African studies, and related areas.

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805837280
• ISBN 13: 9780805837285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 354