This book encourages us to take humor at work seriously. Although
humor is usually associated with trivial or non-serious banter; it
is a significant factor in the construction of organizational
culture. This book provides an experience based organizational
account of how organizations are produced and reproduced, as well
as how organizational interaction is coupled with structure
(organizational rules and resources). It is based on two
ethnographic studies: the first, a year-long study of a hotel
kitchen, and the second, a three-year study of a private boarding
school. This long term examination of an organization's interaction
is used to illustrate how organizational interaction produces the
duality of organizational structuration over time. An ethnographic
communication-focused approach provides methods for recognizing
multiple sites and levels of the structuration process. As a
result, this approach provides a major contribution to
understanding the process of structuration through agents' actions
in the context of their organizational culture. This book will
appeal to those interested in the nuance and complexity of
workplace interaction; specifically it is addressed to students and
researchers in management, sociology, organizational and
communication studies.
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