Understanding organizations through culture and structure :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
relational and other lessons from the African-American organization /
First Statement of Responsibility
Anne Maydan Nicotera, Marcia J. Clinkscales with Felicia R. Walker.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Mahwah, N.J. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Lawrence Erlbaum,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xv, 326 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
LEA's communication series
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Cultural and Organization -- Organization and Culture -- Theorizing Organization -- A Baseline Model of Interpenetrating Structures -- Our Take on Diversity -- Communication and Two Predominantly African-American Organizations -- The Organizing Scheme for Reporting Our Data, Findings, and Theory -- Organization I: The Human Service Organization -- Organization 2: The Elementary School -- Method, Interpretation, and Emergent Theory -- African-American Rules and Resources -- Comparison to the Baseline Model -- Afrocentric Theory -- Traditional African Organizational Forms -- Interpentration of Contradicting Structures: The divergent Organization -- The Contradictions -- The Enculturated Organization -- The Divergent Organizations Communicative Downward Spiral -- Difficulties in Communication Processes -- The System as a Whole -- Briefly Revisiting History: Some Underpinnings of the System as Depicted -- Contemporary African-American Organizational Experiences -- African-American Communication in Predominantly -- White Corporations -- Theoretic Applications -- Predominantly African-American Organizations -- Organizations With European-Based Cultural Membership -- Why Divergence Has a More Negative Impact on African-American Organizations -- Field Observations and Prescriptions That Validate Our Downward Spiral -- Where Do We Go From Here? Conceptualizing The Convergent Organization -- The Task Before Us -- Implications for Organizational Diversity -- Implications for African-American Organizations -- Turning Divergence Into Convergence -- The Foundation for a Humanistic Model of Organizational Communication: A Baseline for Theorizing the Convergent Organization.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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An examination of organizations and the communication processes within them. Presenting research conducted by the authors, it explores problems related to task and relational orientations as they relate to organizational structure and function within predominantly African-American organizations.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Understanding organizations through culture and structure.
International Standard Book Number
0805837280
COVER TITLE
Cover Title
Understanding organization through culture and structure
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African American business enterprises.
African Americans-- Communication.
Communication in organizations-- United States, Case studies.
Diversity in the workplace-- United States, Case studies.
Organizational behavior-- United States, Case studies.