Interacting and Organizing: Analyses of a Management Meeting

by Cooren,Francois

• ISBN13: 9780805848557
• ISBN10: 080584855X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This work provides an exceptional case study, shedding light onto the functioning of an actual corporate board of directors. It presents analysis of a series of corporate board meetings shown in the 1974 documentary film, Corporation: After Mr. Sam. The film chronicles the discussion and communication processes as a company considers how to replace its president, and it serves as a unique opportunity for analysis of real-world organizational discourse. With an impressive list of prominent contributors, Interacting and Organizing: Analyses of a Management Meeting employs the dual perspectives of organizational communication and language and social interaction (LSI) to examine the film. It is arranged around specific topics, analyzed separately by organizational communication and LSI scholars. Editor Francois Cooren provides an introduction for each topic, and a comparison and synthesis conclude each part. Readers will appreciate the information presented, as it is an arena typically off-limits to outside eyes. The transcript of the film is included as an appendix to the volume. This volume is appropriate for use in advanced courses and seminars in organizational communication, LSI, management, and organizational behavior. With its distinctive approach to studying the film's content, it will be invaluable to scholars, researchers, and graduate students in organizational communication, LSI, and management.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Contributors	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
Leadership and Speakership: Which Voice Matters?
Management as Metaconversation: The Search for Closure	p. 5
Enacting the Institutional Role of Chairperson in Upper Management Meetings: The Interactional Realization of Provisional Authority	p. 31
Liberating Leadership in Corporation: After Mr Sam: A Response	p. 53
Organizing and Emotional Display: Contradictions and Paradoxes
Feeling-Limned Talk: Conduct Ideals in the Steinberg Succession Meeting	p. 77
Contradictions in the Metatalk About Feelings in Corporation: After Mr. Sam	p. 95
The Persuasive Nature of Emotion and the Cultural Nature of Feelings in Organizations	p. 113
Strategies of Decision Making: Competencies and Coherences
"We Ought to Have...Gumption...": A CRA Analysis of an Excerpt From the Videotape Corporation: After Mr. Sam	p. 133
The Effect of Interactional Competence on Group Problem Solving	p. 163
Bringing the Outside in: A Contextual Analysis	p. 185
Can We Study Interactions in Documentaries? Ways of Talking, Closure, and Data
Sam Steinberg's Use of "Tell" in Corporation: After Mr. Sam	p. 205
On Talking to Not Make Decisions: A Critical Analysis of Organizational Talk	p. 225
Documentaries Are Not Data	p. 245
Closing Words (and Opening Discussions?): An Afterword on Corporation: After Mr. Sam	p. 289
Transcript of the Management Meeting	p. 297
Transcribing Conventions	p. 333
A Brief History of Steinberg Limited	p. 337
Author Index	p. 341
Subject Index	p. 347
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