Centrality of Power in Organization

As per definition Power is assume that it is something that is possessed by group or a person and their effects can be seen through actions. In paper written by Robert French and Bertram Raven (1968), they described five types of social power. They follow that assumption person A has a…

Week 8: The BIG Short

Contained within the movie, The Big Short, one can find examples of the 5 well known social powers, and ideology.

Week 8: An Experience in Socialization

In this week’s prompt, we were invited to comment on our experiences with the stages of socialization as brought up in Morland and Levine’s book from 2002. With their somewhat-vague model, consisting of investigation, socialization, maintenance, resocialization…

Week 8 — Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

We’re picking up cultural studies of organizations from the thread we started last week, and we’ll wrap up the week with some introduction to critical theory.

Week 9: Myths, Metaphors & Stories

To shape an organization’s culture and how the members of an organization view the organization, many cultural elements can be manipulated. Through the use of myths, metaphors, stories, and many other symbolic expressions, the impression of the organization can be…

Week 9: Myths, Metaphors & Stories

A myth is a “traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or event, with or without determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation” (dictionary.com). Myths are important sources of power and ideology because they cause a certain emotion in people…

Week 11 — Participation, Democracy, and Teamwork

Chapter 8, Teams and Networks: Communication and Collaborative Work, discusses some more recent research and theory about organizational communication and focuses explicitly on engagement and participation in organizations. These theories…

Week 9: Resistance and Discipline

The book defines manufactured consent as social legitimization in which the employees of an…