"This edited textbook introduces upper-level undergraduate students and entry-level graduate students to the major theoretical developments that have occurred within organizational communication during the past 20 years. The text presents theory emergence and development as an engaged process that occurs through the work of real scholars who are grappling with particular organizational problems and issues. Each chapter is written by a ke ..."
"What is the relationship between narrative, society and the forms of control that function in society? This critical analysis examines the role of narrative in the creation of various social realities. The central theme is that narrative is a pervasive form of human communication integral to the production and shaping of social order. Each chapter provides both a theoretical framework and an examination of narratives in a range of co ..."
"Organizational Communication: A Critical Approach is the first textbook in the field that is written from a critical perspective while providing a comprehensive survey of theory and research in organizational communication. The text familiarizes students with the field of organizational communication--historically, conceptually, and practically --and challenges them to reconsider their common sense understandings of work and organizatio ..."
"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 maki ..."
"Organizational communication as a field of study has grown tremendously over the past thirty years. This growth is characterized by the development and application of communication perspectives to research on complex organizations in rapidly changing environments. Completely re-conceptualized, The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication, Third Edition, is a landmark volume that weaves together the various threads of this interdis ..."
Reworking Gender(1st Edition) A Feminist Communicology of Organization by Dr Karen Lee Ashcraft, Dr DennisK. Mumby Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2003 by Sage Publications, Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-7619-5355-5, ISBN: 0-7619-5355-8
"Reworking Gender: A Feminist Communicology of Organization examines the place of gender and feminist scholarship in contemporary critical organization studies. Departing from the common view of gender as a specialized branch of organization scholarship, authors Dennis K. Mumby and Karen Lee Ashcraft reposition feminism in a communication-centered model that integrates recent developments in feminist, critical, and postmodern organizatio ..."
Organizational Communication(1st Edition) A Critical Approach by Dr DennisK. Mumby Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2012 by Sage Publications, Inc ISBN-13: 978-1-4129-6315-2, ISBN: 1-4129-6315-X
"Organizational Communication: A Critical Perspective introduces students to the field of organizational communication--historically, conceptually, and pragmatically--from a perspective grounded in critical theory and research. Author Dennis K. Mumby explores how the history of organizational communication theory and research is one that embodies and attempts to resolve the fundamental tensions and contradictions between the individual a ..."
"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 maki ..."
Organizational Communication A Critical Introduction (Paperback) by DennisK. Mumby Paperback, Published 2018 by Sage Publications, Inc 2018-08-20 ISBN-13: 978-1-5443-2872-0, ISBN: 1-5443-2872-9
"Linking theory with practice, Organizational Communication explores the field historically, conceptually, and practically, guiding students in how they can critically assess their relationships to work, consumption and organizations."
Communication and Power in Organizations Discourse, Ideology, and Domination (People, Communication, Organization) by DennisK. Mumby Hardcover, 194 Pages, Published 1988 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-0-89391-480-6, ISBN: 0-89391-480-0
"(discursive penetration) involves the ability to reframe the system of rules and
resources of an organization in terms of interests other than those of the ..."
Reworking Gender(1st Edition) A Feminist Communicology of Organization by Dr Karen Lee Ashcraft, Dr DennisK. Mumby Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2003 by Sage Publications, Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-7619-5354-8, ISBN: 0-7619-5354-X
"Reworking Gender: A Feminist Communicology of Organization examines the place of gender and feminist scholarship in contemporary critical organization studies. Departing from the common view of gender as a specialized branch of organization scholarship, authors Dennis K. Mumby and Karen Lee Ashcraft reposition feminism in a communication-centered model that integrates recent developments in feminist, critical, and postmodern organizatio ..."
SAGE Series in Communication Research Ser.(1st Edition) Narrative and Social Control : Critical Perspectives by DennisK. Mumby Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1993 by Sage Publications, Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-8039-4931-7, ISBN: 0-8039-4931-6
"What is the relationship between narrative, society and the forms of control that function in society? This critical analysis examines the role of narrative in the creation of various social realities. The central theme is that narrative is a pervasive form of human communication integral to the production and shaping of social order. Each chapter provides both a theoretical framework and an examination of narratives in a range of comm ..."
"Organizational communication scholar Alexandra Murphy (1998) has extended
Hochschild's study by focusing more directly on flight attendant resistance to
corporate control over their expressed emotions. In her study, she is interested in
the hidden transcripts (Scott, 1990) of flight attendant resistance—that is,
discourse and behavior that occur “offstage,” outside the immediate view of those
in power in an organization. Murphy ide ..."
"Foucault (1990a, 1995) explained that social discourse, manifested in
organizations, media, and interpersonal ... Butler's (2007) theory of performativity
also lends insight to the maintenance of categories of difference that constitute
identities."
"For example, Patrice Buzzanell (1995) challenges conceptions of the glass
ceiling, an invisible barrier that hinders women from advancing to higher levels in
organizations. She contends that current definitions of the glass ceiling “
oversimplify ..."
"Arguably, feminist scholarship has almost become part of the mainstream of our
field, even as it simultaneously clings to a marginal position. It frequently fills our
conference programs and graces our “top paper” panels, and it often appears in
our major journals. Most textbooks and anthologies that survey organizational
communication theory (such as this one) now attend to feminist perspectives. At
least in my view, there can be ..."
"Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research: Multiple Perspectives is a book unlike any in the field. Each chapter is written by a prominent scholar who presents a theoretical perspective and discusses how he or she "engages" with it, personally examining what it means to study organizations. Rejecting the traditional model of a "reader," this volume demonstrates the intimate connections among theory, research, and persona ..."
"A Critical Introduction Dennis K. Mumby, Timothy R. Kuhn. Kristen Lucas's study
is based on interviews with 62 people who identify as working class, and
provides fascinating insight into how people make sense of their class
positioning in ..."