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Book Synopsis The first text to systematically examine difference as a defining feature of organizational life 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 ContentsOrganizing 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
