Communication and Power in Organizations

by Mumby, Dennis K.

• ISBN13: 9780893914806
• ISBN10: 0893914800
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-07-01
• Publisher: Ablex Pub

Table of Contents

Introduction To The Series
Preface
The Process of Organizing: The Cultural Perspective on Organizational Communication	1	(22)
Perspectives on Organizational Culture	6	(3)
Sense-making and Organizing	9	(3)
Culture and Organizational Symbolism	12	(7)
Toward an Alternative Perspective on Organizational Culture	19	(2)
Summary and Conclusion	21	(2)
Human Interests, Knowledge Formation, and Organizational Cultures	23	(32)
A Theory of Interests	24	(7)
Critical Theories of Organizing	31	(8)
A Critique of Habermas's Critical Theory	39	(8)
The Problem of ``Interests''	39	(3)
Psychoanalysis and the Critique of Ideology	42	(2)
Systematically Distorted Communication as Ideology	44	(1)
The Ideal Speech Situation and Ideology	45	(2)
Implications for Organizational Cultures	47	(4)
Rethinking Power and Ideology	51	(1)
Summary and Conclusion	52	(3)
Power, Interests, and Organizational Culture	55	(16)
The Concept of Power	56	(5)
Power in Organizations	61	(7)
Summary and Conclusion	68	(3)
Ideology and Organizational Cultures	71	(24)
Ideology and Consciousness	72	(17)
Louis Althusser: Ideology and the State	74	(4)
Goran Therborn: Ideology as Subjection-Qualification	78	(4)
Anthony Giddens: Ideology and Structuration	82	(7)
Organizational Culture and Ideology	89	(4)
Summary and Conclusion	93	(2)
Ideology and Organizational Symbolism	95	(32)
The Ideological Function of Organizational Narratives	102	(22)
Narrative Politics	105	(10)
Organizational Narrative as Ideology: An Application	115	(9)
Summary and Conclusion	124	(3)
Ideology, Epistemology, and Truth	127	(30)
Theories of Knowledge	129	(9)
Radical Conversation	138	(6)
Radical Methodology	144	(11)
Two Modes of Inquiry	148	(7)
Summary and Conclusion	155	(2)
Conclusion: Interpretation and Domination	157	(12)
The Role of Interpretation	159	(7)
Conclusion	166	(3)
References	169	(12)
Author Index	181	(4)
Subject Index	185