Organizational Communication: A Critical Approach
Language: English
Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 2012
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- Title
- Organizational Communication: A Critical Approach
- Author
- Mumby, Dennis K.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications, Inc
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 141296315X
- ISBN 13
- 9781412963152
- Series
- Book 21 of 25: Handbook of School Improvement
By taking a critical perspective to the history, theories, and research of organizational communication, this text seeks to address the following: how do we provide ourselves with the analytic and practical tools that will enable us to be more informed and critical consumers of, and participants in, organizational processes? Put more broadly, how do we learn to be better informed citizens who can participate effectively in, and be advocates of, organizational democracy? This textbook squarely addresses this problem.
In keeping with this theme, this text goes at great pains to explore the link between theory and practice. Mumby shows how management theory and research is of vital importance to our understanding of daily struggles for control over work and organizing processes. The critical perspective throughout helps students understand how, over the course of the last 100 years, corporations have sought more and more sophisticated methods of constructing our identities in ways that are commensurate with organizational world-views and goals.
Features unique to this text include the combination of the following issues:
· A thematic critical perspective on organizational communication, with analysis of traditional and contemporary approaches to organizational communication.
· Integrated discussion of ethics and technology.
· A full chapter on gender and organizational communication.
· A full chapter devoted to issues of organizational democracy.
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About the Author
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.
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