COMT 4/514: Issues in

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COMT 4/514 Issues in Organizational
Communication
Deetz Chapter 7 Dialogic Communication
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What conclusions can you make about our democracy?
Gazette 10/20/99
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Effects of strategic planning

• managerial rationalization
• sustains management
• generates managerial security

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• sustains gendered masculinity
• demonstrates managerial rationality
• legitimizes exercise of power

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• constitutes subjectivity of organizational members

The Forbes Group
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Weick - the importance of active socialization
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Traditionally
structure
communication
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More recently
structure
communication
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Political Practices
Communication expresses self
Decision Practices
strategy
involvement
Domination and control
Codetermination and coordination
consent
participation
Communication constitutes self
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Not meaning is in people, but whose meanings are
in people
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• Morally
• psychology pursues reflective autonomy
• sociology pursues legitimate social order
• communication pursues equitable participation

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• Philosophically
• pre-enlightenment involves unity with nature
• enlightenment thought is about control over
  nature
• post-enlightenment thought suggests that life is
  an open choice to be negotiated

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An image of pain and brutality depicts the
Fascist bombing of the town of Guernica in Spain
(1937)
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The End