Organizational CommunicationTransaction Publishers, 1992 M01 1 - 249 páginas This book discusses the semiotic and ethnographic bases for organizational analysis, including the related fieldwork issues confronting the investigator. It explains the importance of rhetorical-dramaturgic and phenomenological strategies for the study of organizations. The arbitrary and culturally based connections in which organizations abound require an understanding of the particulars of cultural scenes, first observed, later conceptualized through semiotic theory. Organizational Communication includes a series of examples from applied semiotics research in nuclear regulatory policy making, truth telling, regulatory control (by, among others, the police), and risk analysis. These data provide the basis for a critique of the limits of earlier analyses of organizational change, such as those offered by structuralist theories. Dr. Manning concludes with an assessment of the postmodernist ethnographic strategies that have evolved as a response to a larger representational crisis, and of the implications of these strategies for the study of organizational culture. |
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... responses to them ( Geertz 1973 ) . The marking of some collective readings , shared and publicly commu- nicated , as " different , " is , in semiotic terms , a form of contrast signal- ling authority and power . Thus , rituals and ...
... responses to them ( Geertz 1973 ) . The marking of some collective readings , shared and publicly commu- nicated , as " different , " is , in semiotic terms , a form of contrast signal- ling authority and power . Thus , rituals and ...
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... response , since virtually all calls viewed as valid produced the dispatch of officers in cars . Since the analytic foci of the three studies changed , the sort of field- work undertaken changed as well . The fieldwork in London in 1973 ...
... response , since virtually all calls viewed as valid produced the dispatch of officers in cars . Since the analytic foci of the three studies changed , the sort of field- work undertaken changed as well . The fieldwork in London in 1973 ...
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... response is made ( Kreps 1990 : 31 ) . If we move from this to a more socially sensitive defini- tion , such as Bateson's , new vistas open . Gregory Bateson ( 1972 ) calls information a response to data , " a difference that makes a ...
... response is made ( Kreps 1990 : 31 ) . If we move from this to a more socially sensitive defini- tion , such as Bateson's , new vistas open . Gregory Bateson ( 1972 ) calls information a response to data , " a difference that makes a ...
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... response take place almost simul- taneously in an encounter . As one person asks a question , the other is imagining the answer , interpreting the verbal and nonverbal aspects of the question , responding to the possible readings that ...
... response take place almost simul- taneously in an encounter . As one person asks a question , the other is imagining the answer , interpreting the verbal and nonverbal aspects of the question , responding to the possible readings that ...
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... response , and even while hearing , taking the role of the questioner or answerer in the next round or exchange . The net result may produce some mutually shared understandings , but certainly organizing is taking place . Audiences This ...
... response , and even while hearing , taking the role of the questioner or answerer in the next round or exchange . The net result may produce some mutually shared understandings , but certainly organizing is taking place . Audiences This ...
Contenido
Organizational Communication in Context | 17 |
Paradigms in Communication Research | 35 |
Examples | 59 |
Two Ethnographic Studies | 89 |
sets out a paradigm including roles in the field targets for observation | 100 |
Comparative Analysis | 103 |
Resolutions and Organizational Culture | 121 |
Organizations and Information | 131 |
Safety Discourse | 165 |
Lessons for the Field | 183 |
Aspects of Postmodern Ethnography | 199 |
Doing Postmodernism Ethnography | 206 |
Conclusions | 217 |
References | 227 |
Index | 245 |
17 | 249 |
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