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TEXT COMPARISON
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10th Edition
Annotated list of scholars and terms, from the Instructors Manual and margin notes in the text
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Chapter 20—Communicative Constitutions of Organizations
- Robert McPhee
- Organizational communication scholar from Arizona State University behind Communicative Constitution of Organizations [CCO].
- Constitution
- Communication that calls organization into being.
- Sensemaking
- Communication behavior that reduces complexity.
- Flows
- Circulating fields of messages that constitute organizations.
- Membership negotiation
- Communication that regulates the extent to which a person is an organizational member.
- Self-structuring
- Communication that shapes the relationships among an organization’s members.
- Closure
- A sense of shared understanding that emerges in back-and-forth interaction.
- Activity coordination
- Communication that accomplishes the organization’s work toward goals.
- Institutional positioning
- Communication between an organization and external entities.
- Co-orientation
- Communication wherein two or more people focus on a common object.
- Sufficient conditions
- Conditions under which something will occur.
- Necessary conditions
- Conditions under which something can occur.
- James Taylor
- University of Montreal scholar who argues that McPhee’s top-down approach to organizations is too simplistic and it misses the everyday conversation that can structure an organization.
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10th Edition
Annotated list of scholars and terms, from the Instructors Manual and margin notes in the text
List mode: Normal (click on theory name to show detail) | Show All details | Clear details
Chapter 20—Communicative Constitutions of Organizations
- Robert McPhee
- Organizational communication scholar from Arizona State University behind Communicative Constitution of Organizations [CCO].
- Constitution
- Communication that calls organization into being.
- Sensemaking
- Communication behavior that reduces complexity.
- Flows
- Circulating fields of messages that constitute organizations.
- Membership negotiation
- Communication that regulates the extent to which a person is an organizational member.
- Self-structuring
- Communication that shapes the relationships among an organization’s members.
- Closure
- A sense of shared understanding that emerges in back-and-forth interaction.
- Activity coordination
- Communication that accomplishes the organization’s work toward goals.
- Institutional positioning
- Communication between an organization and external entities.
- Co-orientation
- Communication wherein two or more people focus on a common object.
- Sufficient conditions
- Conditions under which something will occur.
- Necessary conditions
- Conditions under which something can occur.
- James Taylor
- University of Montreal scholar who argues that McPhee’s top-down approach to organizations is too simplistic and it misses the everyday conversation that can structure an organization.
You can access the Key Names for a particular chapter in several ways:
- Switch to View by Theory, then select the desired theory/chapter from the drop-down list at the top of the page. Look in the list of available resources.
- To quickly find a theory by chapter number, use the Table of Contents and link from there. It will take you directly to the theory with available options highlighted.
- You can also use the Theory List, which will take you directly to the theory with available options highlighted.
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