Reframing Difference in Organizational Communication Studies: Research, Pedagogy, and Practice

✍ Scribed by Dennis K. Mumby (editor)

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Organizing Difference: An Introduction
Part I: Theorizing Difference and Organization
1 - Knowing Work Through the Communication of Difference
2 - Intersecting Difference: A Dialectical Perspective
3 - Theorizing Difference From Transnational Feminisms
4 - Leadership Discourses of Difference
Part II: Teaching Difference and Organizing
5 - Critical Communication Pedagogy as a Framework for Teaching Difference and Organizing
6 - “But Society is Beyond ___ism” (?)
7 - Teaching Difference as Institutional and Making it Personal
8 - Difference and Cultural Identities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Part III: Applying Difference to Organizational Change
9 - Different Ways of Talking About Intervention Goals
10 - Intersecting Differences
11 - Problematizing Political Economy Differences and Their Respective Work-Life Policy Constructions
12 - The Worlding of Possibilities in a Collaborative Art Studio
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors