Organizations and Identity (Key Themes in Organizational Communication)
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (867 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0745653634 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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For most of us, organizations play a key role in answering that question.In this book, Gregory Larson and Rebecca Gill explain how identities are formed, managed, and regulated in our interactions with organizations, and why identity has become so relevant in modern life. It is essential reading for students and scholars of organizational communication.. Their examination includes frameworks for organizing and understanding identity scholarship, the nature of multiple identities and how these are managed, and the use of identity as a way to control workers.Organizations and Identity introduces a discursive approach to the topic, highlighting what is unique and consequential about studying identity from a communication perspective. The question “who
Larson is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Montana.Rebecca Gill is Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at Massey University.. Gregory S
Provocative and insightful, Organizations and Identity challenges us to consider the multiple ways that organizational life forms, shapes, and manages our identities. "In this accessible and thought-provoking book, Larson and Gill pull together a number of threads in research on organizational identification, including ways identity is a problem for organizations and members and how 'local' concerns relate to wider social trends. Larson and Gill provide the most comprehensive and accessible treatment of organizations and identity to date." Steve May, University of North Carolina. They are