Overview
Please read the following case study and reflect on the docuement and what you have read and discussed during the course.
The purpose of the reflective analysis papers is to demonstrate understanding and mastery of the course content through reflective application to your professional practice. Reflective Analysis papers are 1000 words minimum and are assessed on depth of insight, accuracy of application and integration of relevant course readings / concepts.
Week 7.
- Defining Difference
- Putting Race and Organization in Historical Context
- Contemporary Workplace
- Interrogating Whiteness and Organizational Communication
- Traditional Perspectives on Leadership
- New Approaches to Leadership
- Transformational Leadership
- Week 6
- The Postmodern Organization
- Fordism and Post Fordism
- Teams, Emotions, and No-Collar Work
- Feminist Perspectives on Organizational Communication
- Masculinity and Organizational Communication
- Viewing Organizations as Gendered
- Week 5
- Perspectives on Power and Organizations
- Power as Social Influence
- Organizational Communication and Ideology
- Ideology and Storytelling
- Organizational Communication and Corporate Colonization
- Resisting Corporate Colonization.
- Week 4.
- Emergence of the Cultural Approach
- The Pragmatist Approach
- The Purist Approach
- The use of Interpretive and Ethnographic Methods
- Relevant Constructs and Facts
- Week 3.
- Principles of the Systems Perspective
- Organizations as Systems of Communication
- Critical Technologies
- Negative Entropy
- Hierarchy
- Goal Orientation.
- Week 2.
- The Emergence of the Modern Organization
- Scientific Management
- Bureaucratic Theory: Max Weber and Organizational Communication
- Elton Mayo and the Hawthorne Studies
- Empirical Data
- Mary Parker Follett: Bridging Theory and Practice
- Human Resource Management
- Week 1.
- Defining Organizational Communication
- Goal Orientation and Control Mechanisms
- Framing Theories of Organizational Communication
- The Critical Approach: A History
- Understanding Organizational Communication from a Critical Perspective
- Critical Technologies and Mediating Everyday Life
- Political Sites of Power and Control