CMN 2148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Organizational Communication, Blue-Collar Worker, Feminist Theory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2148
• Professor: Mary Hawkins

Document Summary

Communication is the processes that literally produces organizing, decision making, and influence. First-ness; actions and events of the organization + Second-ness; all the people (agents) engaging in these activities = Third-ness; an abstract representation of what an organization is about and how its authority" influences present and future actions. Organizational communication is therefore the focal process for this construction and negotiation. Females in organizations adapt to male norms while being valuated against female stereotypes. The male domination of cultures goes largely unrecognized in organizational life and in mainstream organizational theory". Alternative perspective to feminist theory; ^ connie bulls (1993) Described why its important to consider how socialization practices can construct women as marginalized others. Challenged us to think about voices marked as outsiders, unsocialized, uncommitted, disloyal, absentee, unemployable, or dropouts. Racial bias in organizations; karen ashcraft and brenda allen (2003) Many of the assumptions in organizations about the contributions of women apply to people of color.