| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Understanding organizations through culture and structure/ Anne Maydan Nicotera, Marcia J. Clinkscales with Felicia R. Walker. |
| Reminder of title: |
relational and other lessons from the African-American organization / |
| remainder title: |
Understanding organization through culture and structure |
| Author: |
Nicotera, Anne Maydan, |
| other author: |
Clinkscales, Marcia J. |
| Published: |
Mahwah, N.J. :Lawrence Erlbaum, : 2003., |
| Description: |
xv, 326 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| Series: |
LEA's communication series |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Cultural and Organization -- Organization and Culture -- Theorizing Organization -- A Baseline Model of Interpenetrating Structures -- Our Take on Diversity -- Communication and Two Predominantly African-American Organizations -- The Organizing Scheme for Reporting Our Data, Findings, and Theory -- Organization I: The Human Service Organization -- Organization 2: The Elementary School -- Method, Interpretation, and Emergent Theory -- African-American Rules and Resources -- Comparison to the Baseline Model -- Afrocentric Theory -- Traditional African Organizational Forms -- Interpentration of Contradicting Structures: The divergent Organization -- The Contradictions -- The Enculturated Organization -- The Divergent Organizations Communicative Downward Spiral -- Difficulties in Communication Processes -- The System as a Whole -- Briefly Revisiting History: Some Underpinnings of the System as Depicted -- Contemporary African-American Organizational Experiences -- African-American Communication in Predominantly -- White Corporations -- Theoretic Applications -- Predominantly African-American Organizations -- Organizations With European-Based Cultural Membership -- Why Divergence Has a More Negative Impact on African-American Organizations -- Field Observations and Prescriptions That Validate Our Downward Spiral -- Where Do We Go From Here? Conceptualizing The Convergent Organization -- The Task Before Us -- Implications for Organizational Diversity -- Implications for African-American Organizations -- Turning Divergence Into Convergence -- The Foundation for a Humanistic Model of Organizational Communication: A Baseline for Theorizing the Convergent Organization. |
| Subject: |
African American business enterprises. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=83852An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1410607488 (electronic bk.) |