Reframing difference in organizational communication studies : research, pedagogy, and practice / Dennis K. Mumby, [editor and contributor].

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Organizing difference: an introduction / Dennis K. Mumby -- PART I: Theorizing difference and organization. Knowing work through the communication of difference: a revised agenda for difference studies / Karen Lee Ashcraft -- Intersecting difference: a dialectical perspective / Linda L. Putnam, Jody Jahn, and Jane Stuart Baker -- Theorizing difference from transnational feminisms / Sarah E. Dempsey -- Leadership discourses of difference: executive coaching and the alpha male syndrome / Gail T. Fairhurst [and others] -- -- PART II: Teaching difference and organizing. Critical communication pedagogy as a framework for teaching difference and organizing / Brenda J. Allen -- "But society is beyond _ism" : teaching how differences are "organized" via institutional privilege <> oppression / Erika Kirby -- Teaching difference as institutional and making it personal: moving among personal, interpersonal and institutional constructions of difference / Jennifer Mease -- Difference and cultural identities in Aotearoa New Zealand: pedagogical, theoretical, and pragmatic implications of the Josie Bullock case / Shiv Ganesh -- -- PART III: Applying difference to organizational change. Different ways of talking about intervention goals / John G. McClellan, Stephen Williams, and Stanley Deetz -- Intersecting differences: organizing [ourselves] for social justice research with people in vulnerable communities / Patricia s. Parker, Elisa Oceguera, and Joaquín Sánchez, Jr. -- Problematizing political economy differences and their respective work-life policy constructions / Patrice M. Buzzanell, Rebecca L. Dohrman, and Suzy D'Enbeau -- 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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All of the scholars in this volume explore difference from a variety of perspectives, each of which systematically looks at the relationships among communication, organizing, and difference.

English.

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