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Recounting the history of the study of organization conflict, the book presents alternative views to the traditional positivistic approach and the traditional assumption that conflict is destructive. The book also focus on the individual, showing how predisposition or skills impact on conflict in the organization, and vice versa.
Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization presents an innovative view of organizations and the communication processes that constitute them. Arguing that human beings are communicatively embedded in their cultures, Anne Maydan Nicotera and Marcia J. Clinkscales, working with Felicia R. Walker, examine issues concerning task and relational orientations and the ways they and other cultural dimensions connect with organizational structure and function for predominantly African American organizations. Utilizing the results of their own research on organizations, they develop a set of humanistically-based models that illustrate how hidden cultural processes suffuse organizational life and are manifest through communication. Emphasizing the development of alternative theories and models of organizing which are rooted in African-American culture, such as team-based versus hierarchy-based interactions, this book explores such organizational functions as leadership and management, power, authority and control, communication and interpersonal dynamics, and cultural identity and human development. Applying their findings in a broader analysis of contemporary practices in organizational restructuring, the authors present research that serves as the foundation for generating several emergent models with significant implications for organizational systems. Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure stimulates and inspires current researchers of organizational communication, and is certain to raise greater awareness of the operation of culture in organizing. The text is intended for scholars and students in organizational communication, management, organizational psychology, African studies, and related areas.
"Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure:
Relational and Other Lessons From the African American
Organization" presents an innovative view of organizations and the
communication processes that constitute them. Arguing that human
beings are communicatively embedded in their cultures, Anne Maydan
Nicotera and Marcia J. Clinkscales, working with Felicia R. Walker,
examine issues concerning task and relational orientations and the
ways they and other cultural dimensions connect with organizational
structure and function for predominantly African American
organizations. Utilizing the results of their own research on
organizations, they develop a set of humanistically-based models
that illustrate how hidden cultural processes suffuse
organizational life and are manifest through communication.
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