The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication

Abstract

The dominant treatment of roles in organizational studies define a role as "the set of behaviors that others expect of individuals in a certain context" (Floyd & Lane, 2000, p. 157). Although role theory has intriguing communicative features in itself (see below), the unique contribution of a communication perspective to roles is a more nuanced approach to the expectations and interpretations surrounding role interactions than the dominant approach provides (Bechky, 2006). An exploration into its possible etymological backgrounds can help to understand how roles play roles in organizational contexts.

Cognitive overload in organizational knowledge management: Case study research

“…Furthermore, even when they are based on established SM technologies, ESM can integrate specific internal systems, such as proprietary directories and knowledge repositories (Weber & Shi, 2017). Today, there is a flourishing market for ESM software, services, and platforms that companies can use in their private environment.…”

“…Social media (SM) are rapidly diffusing among organizations because they are considered important for competitive advantage (Choudrie & Zamani, 2016;Schlagwein & Hu, 2017). Many scholars underline that SM can bring substantial benefits to knowledge management (KM) thanks to increased communication, better collaboration, enhanced knowledge location and sharing, faster integration of new employees, and so on (Mäntymäki & Riemer, 2016;Weber & Shi, 2017).…”

“…Although the advantages of SM to KM have been widely emphasized, the potential barriers, limitations, and negative impacts have been generally overlooked (Mukkamala & Razmerita, 2014;Weber & Shi, 2017). As is observed by A.…”

Chinese Post80s Generational Resilience: Chengyu (成语) as Communicative Resources for Adaptation and Change

“…Although past research depicted human resilience as atypical, scholars and practitioners now regard resilience as everyday processes (Afifi & Keith, 2004;Bonanno, 2004;Buzzanell, 2010Buzzanell, , 2018Long et al, 2015). They consider human resilience to be common and just as important to individual and community renewal as repairs to physical infrastructures (Doerfel & Harris, 2017), noting that culturally patterned strategies differ (Houston et al, 2015;Luthar, Doernberger, & Zigler, 1993;Ulturgasheva, 2014). To capture the everyday constitution of resilience, Ungar (2004) conceptualizes resilience as "the outcome from negotiations between individuals and their environment for the resources to define themselves as healthy amidst conditions collectively viewed as adverse" (p. 342).…”

“…communication approaches to human resilience and strategies for resilience-producing interactions (Buzzanell, 2018Doerfel & Harris, 2017Hall, 2016;Long et al, 2015). Despite their calls to understand resilience as constituting processes in different contexts, research is only beginning to explicate how resilience is enacted drawing from cultural and generational resources with none investigating the community of Post80s generational professionals in China.…”