Awards

• Winner of National Communication Association Charles H. Woolbert Research Award 2010
• Winner of National Communication Association Charles H. Woolbert Research Award 2010.

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Author:   Dennis K. Mumby
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781412970082

ISBN 10:   1412970083
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   29 September 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Joaquín Sánchez, 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

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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. 

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