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Discourse and Organization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Discourse and Organization

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-09-28
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  • Publisher: SAGE

This major work from renowned scholars in the field, analyzes the role of language and symbolic media and shows how this enables us to move to new levels of understanding of contemporary organizational issues. An introductory chapter examines the role and growing importance of discourse in the study of organizations. It critically evaluates the contributions of various disciplines and defines organizational discourse as a subject area. The chapters in the first section, Talk and Action, explore the relationship between discourse, action and interaction and their impact on organizational structure and behaviour. Stories and Sensemaking focuses on the analytical potential of the `story' as a means of illuminating the ways in

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-07-18
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  • Publisher: SAGE

The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse has received the 2004 Outstanding Book Award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association `Organizational discourse is not a new topic but is one that has grown in significance and citations in recent years. Thanks to the new The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Discourse there is now a definitive set of up-to-the-minute resources available, by distinguished as well as emergent researchers. It should have a prominent place on all organization researchers bookshelves′ - Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney `Organizational researchers interested in discursive philosophies, methods an...

Metaphor and Organizations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Metaphor and Organizations

Introducing the use of metaphor in organization studies, this volume outlines key areas of debate, explains how metaphors contribute to creating new theories about organizations and demonstrates how metaphors impact on organizational ability.

Organisation Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Organisation Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Ft Press

The use of metaphors to explain organizational development is an increasingly popular method within this area. Those metaphors contained in this text seek to address the limitations of, and the problems associated with, organizational theory, as well as focusing on the strengths and benefits.

Research in Organizational Change and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Research in Organizational Change and Development

These manuscripts provide an intriguing collection that capture and provide value to the real work of creating a sustainable field of study and practice - organization change and development - and sustainable organizations.

The Oxford Handbook of Metaphor in Organization Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 529

The Oxford Handbook of Metaphor in Organization Studies

Metaphors for organization and management have been a subject of strong interest in the area of organizational studies since the 1980s. Metaphors enhance the understanding of organizations and provide a mechanism for critiquing current practices, increasing effectiveness, and improving communication. The Oxford Handbook of Metaphor in Organization Studies provides a comprehensive reference for researchers, educators, and managers. The book comprises twenty-nine chapters, which are authored by over forty contributors, many of whom have played major roles in the development of the field over the years. The theoretical underpinnings of organizational metaphors are explored. An array of metaphorical contexts for understanding management and organizations is presented. The various uses of metaphor as a tool in research, education, and management are addressed, as are the limitations of metaphors. Finally, future research directions related to metaphors in organizational studies and management are proposed.

A Guide to Discursive Organizational Psychology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

A Guide to Discursive Organizational Psychology

This book offers a lively illustration of the dynamic relationship between discourse and organizational psychology. Contributions include empirically rich discussions of both traditional and widely studied topics such as resistance to change, inclusion and exclusion, participation, multi-stakeholder collaboration and diversity management, as well as newer research areas such as language negotiations, work time arrangements, technology development and change as intervention.

Research in Organizational Change and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Research in Organizational Change and Development

Volume 30 of Research in Organizational Change and Development brings together contributions from colleagues around the globe with powerful insights and potentially relevant impact for researching and practicing organization change and development during and post the pandemic.

Reforming Age Discrimination Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Reforming Age Discrimination Law

  • Categories: Law

Age is a critical issue for labour market policy. Both younger and older workers experience significant challenges at work. Despite the introduction of age discrimination laws, ageism remains prevalent. Reforming Age Discrimination Law offers a roadmap for the future development of age discrimination law in common law countries, to better address workplace ageism. Drawing on theoretical, doctrinal, and empirical legal scholarship, and comparative perspectives from the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, the book provides a socio-legal critique of existing age discrimination laws and their enforcement and proposes concrete suggestions for legal reform and change. Building on legal and inte...

Deconstructing Reaganism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Deconstructing Reaganism

As in so many other areas of American society, the political legacy of Ronald Reagan had an imposing presence in many contemporary American films, particularly between 1980 and 2000. Six films, which collectively represent the spectrum of Reaganism’s most popular tropes, demonstrate quite compellingly that in celebrating nostalgically the blissful pleasantries of family stability and social order so essential to Reagan’s political philosophy, an unsettling and unsatisfying mythology has been created about a period in which many Americans were acutely aware that something was missing, even if they could not pinpoint it at the time. This leads the critical viewer to largely unacknowledged ...