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| What are the 3 main concepts to Cultural Approach to Organizations? |
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Culture
Cultural Performance
3 means to Access Organization Culture |
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What is the first concept to Cultural Approach to Organizations
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what is the definition? |
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Culture:
Systems of shared meaning, shared understanding, and shared sensemaking. |
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What is the first concept to Cultural Approach to Organizations
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How many sub concepts are there? |
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What is the first concept to Cultural Approach to Organizations
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What are the 3 sub concepts? |
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Culture:
-Culture is divided into different groups (subcultures and countercultures)
-Organizations do not have a culture - they are a culture
-Organization culture is the residue of members' performances - made through everyday interaction. |
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What is the Second concept to Cultural Approach to Organizations
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What is the definition? |
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Cultural Performance:
actions by which members constitute and reveal their culture to themselves and others; an ensemble of texts. |
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What is the Second concept to Cultural Approach to Organizations
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How many Sub Concepts are there? |
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Cultural Performance:
2 sub concepts |
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What is the Second concept to Cultural Approach to Organizations
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What are the 2 Sub Concepts? |
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Cultural Performance:
Four Characteristsics of Performance
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Organizational Communication Performances |
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Term
| What are the Four Characteristicis of Performance? |
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Definition
Performances are:
interactional
contextual
episodes with identifiable beginning and ends
improvised |
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Term
What is the definition of:
Performances are Interactional? |
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Definition
| like dialogues - social acts, not solitary ones; people participate together in organizational performances |
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Term
What is the definition of:
Performances are contextual? |
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Definition
| always embedded in a larger frame of activity - both reflecting and producing its context |
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What is the definition of:
Performances are epidsodes |
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Definition
| identifiable beginning and ends |
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What is the definition of:
Performances are improvised |
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Definition
| there is flexibility in how even repeated episodes are enacted. |
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Term
| What are the subconcepts of Organizational Communication Performances? |
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Definition
Rituals
Passion
Sociality
Organizational Politics
Enculturalization |
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What is the definition of:
Rituals |
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Definition
| repetitive performances that reinforce certain communication practices and understandings |
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What is the definition of:
Passion |
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| Performances that transform dull and routine tasks into interesting tasks (often through storytelling) |
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What is the definition of:
Sociality |
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| performances that reinforce a common sense of propriety and make use of social rules within the organization. |
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What is the definition of:
Organization Politics
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Definition
| performances that create and reinforce notions of power and influence. |
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What is the definition of:
Enculturalation |
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| performances (ongoing) used to teach the culture to organizational members. |
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Term
| What are the sub concepts and sub sub concepts to Concept 2: Cultural Performance? |
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Definition
Four Characteristics of Performance
Performances are interactional
"" contextual
""episodes
""improvised
Organizatioanl Communication Performances
Rituals
Passion
Sociality
Organizational Politics
Enculturation |
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Term
| What is concept 3 of Culturla Approach to Organizations? |
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| 3 Means to Access Organizational Culture |
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Term
| What are the 3 means to Access Oranizational Culture? |
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Term
What is the definition of Metaphors?
What is the subconcept? |
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Definition
clarifies what is unknown or confusing by equating it with an image that's more familiar or vivid
Starting place for accessing the shared meaning of a corporate culture
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Term
What is the definition of Stories?
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Definition
Contain a mosaic of significance regarding the people, places, and events to which the relate.
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Term
| What are the 3 sub concepts to "Stories"? |
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Definition
-Repetitive Stories provide a means to view corporate webs of significance or culture.
-Repetitive Stories have script-like qualities, capturing memorable performances and passion actor felt at the time.
-Three Types of Stories. |
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Term
| What are the 3 types of stories? |
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Definition
Corporate Stories
Personal Stories
Collegial Stories |
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Term
| What is the definition to Corporate Stories? |
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Definition
| tales that carry management idealogy and reinforce company policy |
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Term
| what is the definition of personal stories? |
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| tales told by employees defining how they would like to be seen within the organization |
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Term
| what is the definition of collegial stories? |
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| positive or negative anecdotes about others in the organization; descriptions of how things really work. |
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| What is the definition of Ritual? |
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| something that is repeated regularly - familiar and routine. |
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| What are the 3 sub concepts to Ritual? |
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Can convey multiple aspects of cultural life like texts.
Constantly renew our understandings of organizational common experience - legitimizing thoughts, emotions, and acts.
Exhibit a strong resistance to change. |
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Term
| What are the Subconcepts and Sub Sub concepts to 3 Means to Access Organization Culture? |
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Definition
Metaphors:
-Starting place for accessing the shared meaning of a corporate culture
Stories:
-Repetitive Stories provide a means to view corporate webs of significance or culture
-Repetitive stories have script like qualities, capturing memorable performances and passion the actor felt at the time
-Three types of stories:
Corporate Stories
Personal Stories
Collegial Stories
Ritual:
-Can convey multiple aspects of culture life like texts
-Constantly renew our understandings of organizational common experience - legitimizing thoughts emotions, and acts.
-Exhibit a strong resistance to change. |
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Term
What is the definition to:
Cultural Approach to Organizations: |
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Definition
| the working of an organization can be understood through interpretation of its culture. |
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Term
What are the assumptions to:
Cultural Approach to Organization? |
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Definition
Communication is the process through which cultural webs and strands are constructed.
Communication 'creates and constitutes the taken-for-granted reality of the world"
Communication is a performance, which are accomplishments that bring about the reality of the culture.
Organizational culture is something that is made through everyday interaction within the organization. |
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Term
| What are the 3 concepts to Standpoint Theory? |
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Definition
Standpoint
Social Hierarchy, Social Location, and Social Groups
Strong Objectivity
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Term
What is the Defintion of:
Standpoint |
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| place from which to critically view the world around us. |
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Term
| What are the subconcepts to the subconcept Standpoint? |
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Standpoint are partial
Standpoints relate to and reveal power differentials
Standpoints are indicative of waht one accepts without conscious thought.
Standpoints influence language choices and usage. |
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Term
| What are the Two Subconcepts to Standpoint? |
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Definition
Standpoint
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Standpoint Components |
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| What are the two subconcepts to Standpoints Components? |
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Social Location
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Critical Reflection |
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| What is the defintion of Social Location? |
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Definition
| one's position within society and social groups |
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Term
| What is the definition of critical relflection? |
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| a standpoint involves critical engagement of the power relations through the construction of an oppostional stance. |
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Term
| what is the first concept to Standpoint Theory and what are the 2 sub concepts? |
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Definition
Standpoint:
Standpoint & Standpoints Components |
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Term
What are the 4 sub concepts to
Social Hierarchy, Social Location, and Social Groups? |
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Cultures are hierarchally ordered socially
Social Hierarchies constitute power differentials that affect individuals in regards to their social location.
Social location of social groups affect what their members experience, know, and how they understand and communicate with oneself, others, and the world.
Social groups affect conceptions of identity, power, and knowledge. |
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Term
What are the 3 sub concepts to:
Social groups affect conceptions of identity, power, and knowledge. |
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Term
| What is the defintion of Identity? |
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Definition
| individuals have multiple identities (indicative/reflective of their social positions) that overlay and provide layered understandigns of the social world (knowledge), which taken together inform one's standpoint. |
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Term
| What is the definition of Power? |
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| Dominant social groups (top of the social hierarchy) have the power to define within a culture the position of societal members and the meaning of their social roles. |
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Term
| What is the definition of Knowledge? |
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| through the ability to define meaning dominant power groups (top of the social hierarchy) are able to shape what is known. |
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Term
What is the third concept to Standpoint Theory?
What does it mean? |
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Definition
Strong objectivity:
Standpoints of subordinate/marginalized groups are less partial, distorted, or false than the perspective of individuals in dominant positions.
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Term
| What is the subconcept to Strong Objectivity? |
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| Subordinate positions provide a more objective view of the social world than those rooted in dominant positions. |
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Term
| What are the 2 sub concepts to subordinate positions? |
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Definition
Individuals in subordinate social groups/social positions are motivated to understand their own position and the position of those in dominant power positions.
Individuals in subordinate social groups/social positions have little or no motivation to support the status quo, which maintains the social hierarchy and dominant power groups. |
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Term
| What is the definiton of Standpoint Theory? |
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Definition
| where a societal member and his or her social group is positioned in the social hierarcy (social location) affects how and how objectively that individual understands and constructs the social world and the power differentials influencing it. |
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Term
| What are the assumptions of Standpoint Theory? |
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Definition
How individuals understand and construct their social world is influenced by their experiences of/in the social word.
Understanding experience is found in the distinctive ways individuals interpret and construct social conditions and experiences. |
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Term
| What are the subconcepts and sub sub concepts to concept 1: Standpoint in the Standpoint Theory? |
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Definition
Standpoint:
standpoints are partial
standpoints relate to and reveal power differentials
standpoints are indicative of what one accepts without conscious thought
standpoints influence language choices and usage
Standpoints Components:
Social Location
Critical Reflection |
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