Development of Key Constructs

Conrad, Charles; Haynes, J. Chris

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“…Agency becomes an active component of structure (Garfinkel, 1967). Theories like structuration also reflect the multidimensional nature of structure and action; structural conditions include interactional rules, material conditions, and communicative resources, wher eas action includes agency, subjectivity/ intersubjectivity, and actor knowledgeability (Conrad & Haynes, 2001). Although these theories differ in a number of ways, each seeks a balance between agency and constraint.…”

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“…After reviewing structuration theory research, Conrad and Haynes (2001), among others, saw a bias toward action over structure in this work. Boden (1994) freely admitted to a bias toward action in her view of organizations, whereas actor-network theory reconceptualizes structure into a nonhuman form of agency (Latour, 1994).…”

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Organizations as Discursive Constructions

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“…Although some might consider such a limitation to be fatal, especially in a field where "power," "ideology," "resistance," "culture," or "identification" appear as key constructs (Conrad & Haynes, 2001), I think I have been able to show that we should not necessarily feel limited by the (apparently) local character of this type of analysis. Even if it is locally produced, the board meeting is in fact a place in which several portions of the organization can be represented, that is, made present.…”

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The Communicative Achievement of Collective Minding

Cooren

2004

Management Communication Quarterly

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Based on an in-depth analysis of excerpts from a board meeting in a drug rehabilitation center, this article shows how a group of managers displays a form of intelligence that cannot be reduced to the simple sum of their respective contributions. Although this phenomenonhas been illustrated so far in the context of high-reliability organizations, this analysis extends previous findings by showing that a form of collective intelligence can be found more generally in patterns of conversational behavior. The managers are shown to be constructing, amending, and adding a series of textual blocks that ultimately represent the heedfulness of the group. Although it can only be achieved on the “terra firma” of interactions, collective minding is shown to be a phenomenon that always transcends the “here and now” by interrelating this latter with the “there and then,” a phenomenon of translocalization that can be identified as a form of organizational intelligence.

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“…Weick (1995) suggests in his scholarship on sense making that the identity of the sense maker is in constant play with the environment, context, and people around him or her. Scholars crossing disciplines have argued that work environments that have care for clients as a primary goal of the organization uniquely affect the identities and ideologies of the organization's employees (Conrad and Haynes 2001;Hardy and Clegg 1996;Heponiemi et al 2007;Juthberg et al 2008;Kahn 1993). Central to the experiences of the workers at Dix are an ideology and acts of care.…”

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The discursive construction of care when there is no care to be found: Organizational life (re)framed by those on the socio‐economic margins facing job loss

Gunn

2011

Culture and Organization

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At the same time that low-wage workers in the changing US health care systems are facing under-and unemployment, organizational scholars are engaged in a healthy discussion of the impact of layoffs on various organizational stakeholders. Through a feminist ethics lens and an ethnographic in-depth interviewing methodology, this case study expands that work by exploring how 55 low-wage workers in a state mental health hospital facing closure make sense of their experiences of impending job loss. The collected narratives illuminate how the workers interpret the (un)ethical behaviors of the organizational decision makers and how the workers author a (re)framing of their experiences through an attention to care. Explicated from the workers' descriptions is a perspective about standpoint and open communication that offers organizational scholars and practitioners a foundation from which to expand approaches to communicating with workers in an environment of organizational closure.

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Development of Key Constructs

Cited by 41 publications

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Organizations as Discursive Constructions

Organizations as Discursive Constructions

The Communicative Achievement of Collective Minding

The discursive construction of care when there is no care to be found: Organizational life (re)framed by those on the socio‐economic margins facing job loss

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