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Comm in Organization
Comm Theory - Critical Theory of Comm in Organizations
Term | Definition |
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corporate colonization | encroachment of modern corporations into every area of life outside the workplace |
information model | a view that communication is merely a conduit for the transmission of information about the real world |
communication model | a view that language is the principal medium through which social reality is created and sustained |
codetermination | collaborative decision making; participatory democracy in the workplace |
managerialism | a systematic logic, set of routine practices, and ideology that values control over all other concerns |
consent | the process by which employees actively, though unknowingly, accomplish managerial interests in a faulty attempt to fulfill their own |
systematically distorted communication | operating outside of employees' awareness, a form of discourse that restricts what can be said or even considered |
discursive closure | suppression of conflict without employees realizing that they are complicit in their own censorship |
involvement | stakeholders' free expression of ideas that may, or may not, affect managerial decisions |
participation | stakeholder democracy; the process by which all stakeholders in an organization negotiate power and openly reach collaborative decisions |
PARC model | politically attentive relational constructivisim; a collaborative view of communication based in conflict |