Organizational Communication

Putnam, Linda D.; Krone, Kathleen P.

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“…This history is well-documented in a number of publications that describe how corporate rhetoric, persuasion, and organizational media contribute to the foundations of the field (Putnam & Cheney, 1985;Putnam & Krone, 2006;Redding, 1985;Redding & Tompkins, 1988). History provides not only a broad overview but also insights into the key debates and central constructs that led to the emergence of the field.…”

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“…Some of these graduate programs are housed in other disciplines, for example, management, marketing, psychology, and organizational studies. In the past decade, scholars have produced two edited handbooks (Grant, Hardy, Oswick, & Putnam, 2004;Jablin & Putnam, 2001), five volumes of major works in the field (Putnam & Krone, 2006), and five major overview articles (Clair, 1999;Jones, Watson, & Gallois, 2004;Krone, 2005;Putnam & Boys, 2006;Taylor, Flanagin, Cheney, & Seibold, 2001) in an effort to take inventory and distill knowledge in the field.…”

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Issue Forum: Breadth and Depth Of Knowledge In Communication

Hample¹

2008

Communication Monographs

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For the most part, the enterprise of research requires discoveries that deepen rather than broaden knowledge in a discipline. For every essay that newly notices connections from one area of study to another, there are probably hundreds of papers that concentrate more attention, more narrowly, on an issue within one specialization. A key task of doctoral education is to teach people to do this, to specialize and to deepen our collective understandings. Given the finite limits of doctoral education (particularly time, staff, and money), such specialization implies a trade-off with general knowledge. This is not a new problem. It probably dates to whenever the second course in anything was first taught, whenever that was.Nonetheless I think it is periodically useful to ask how we are doing. An education in 2010 cannot contain an education from 1985 along with everything extra from the last quarter century. As we omit things from our curricula are we abandoning things that are still important? Are young scholars whose knowledge base lacks the breadth of a 1985 curriculum properly sited to make new discoveries in relatively unexplored areas? Are they only equipped to keep digging in whatever hole they chose at the age of 25? And all of this implies another question that seems quite important to those of us who have spent most of our adulthoods living in academic departments: Are young PhDs able to participate in communication faculties that have a common mission, a sense of collective coherence? I invited three scholars to address these sorts of matters. Each of them is well positioned*by experience, character, scholarship, and perceptiveness*to consider these questions. I did not have any reason to expect the concord that readers will find in these essays. I did have good grounds for expecting that the essays would be well grounded and I have not been disappointed. I asked them to consider, each within his or her own specialization, What should a new PhD know?Dale Hample PhD, University of Illinois is an associate professor of communication at the University of Maryland. Correspondence to: Dale Hample,The study of interpersonal communication has a long and honored tradition and it remains a critical area of study offered by our best doctoral programs. Certainly this is true of the doctoral program in Communication Studies at Northwestern where we have been offering graduate study in interpersonal communication for almost four decades. The graduates of such programs are entering into a community of productive and insightful scholars whose research continues to make important contributions. One need only examine the current volume of the Handbook of Interpersonal Communication (Knapp & Daly, 2002) to see the wide range of topics being researched, the sophistication of the theory and methods being used, and the valuable contributions arising from our inquiry. Moreover, several recent collections provide clear evidence of the contribution of interpersonal communication research to the well-being of individuals and relati...

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Section: Knowledge About Organizational Communicationmentioning

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Issue Forum: Breadth and Depth Of Knowledge In Communication

Hample¹

2008

Communication Monographs

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“…In addition to English‐based articles, citations appeared in journals published in French, German, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Finally, the Fairhurst and Putnam () essay was reprinted in two edited volumes, including Major Works in Organizational Communication (Putnam & Krone, ) and an edited collection on organizational communication translated into Portuguese (Marchiori, ).…”

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Revisiting “Organizations as Discursive Constructions”: 10 Years Later

Putnam

Fairhurst

2015

Commun Theor

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In this article, we express our appreciation for the honor accorded our 2004 Communication Theory article, “Organizations as Discursive Constructions.” We do this through situating the 2004 article historically so the reader can appreciate the milieu that surrounded the publication of this piece. We also trace the different ways that scholars have applied the ideas in this publication, including the debates and critiques of this perspective. Finally, we look to the ways in which “organizations as discursive constructions” might be extended to research on materiality and the dialectical interplay between organization and disorganization.

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“…Second, a democracy requires trust among citizens and individuals that only some form of common identity is going to produce. 13 As David Miller writes, 'there is evidence that cultural divisions among the members of a political community may reduce both interpersonal trust and trust in political institutions'. 14 With the result that democracies work at best as a market, to paraphrase Elster's important work on the different models of democracy, where the 'mode of functioning is that of aggregating individual decisions'.…”

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Sources of democracy: Rights, trust and solidarity

Kaul

2020

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Three recently published reports show to what extent democracy is losing ground in a global context increasingly characterized by authoritarianism and populism. The argument this articles proposes is that the deplorable state of democracies around the world is due to the neglect of substantial characteristics and sources of democracy, which are above all trust and solidarity. Democracy has three different, but interrelated sources that are built upon each other according to a lexical order. A democracy is first based upon political rights, there is in an inherent liberal component to democracy. Second, a democracy requires trust among citizens and individuals that only some form of common identity is going to produce. Third, democracy is based upon strong forms of equality that are brought about by solidarity. The article comes to following conclusions: First, as the experience of Islamophobia and racism in Europe and authoritarianism in the Arab world shows, the concepts of illiberal democracy or majoritarianism currently promoted by strongmen around the globe do not stand for proper democratic political systems. Second, in our plural societies, neither thick nationalism nor strong multiculturalism does support the development of the democratic spirit. Third, Republicanism in Rousseau’s tradition is right that inequalities are the main cause undermining full democracies. A democracy requires the solidarity of the welfare state.

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Organizational Communication

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Issue Forum: Breadth and Depth Of Knowledge In Communication

Issue Forum: Breadth and Depth Of Knowledge In Communication

Revisiting “Organizations as Discursive Constructions”: 10 Years Later

Sources of democracy: Rights, trust and solidarity

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