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May 8, 2024

Decision-Making and Conflict within Organizations

According to Miller, conflict contemplates “The interaction of interdependent people who perceive opposition of goals, aims, and values, and who see the other party as potentially interfering with the realization of these goals” (Miller & Barbour, 2020, p. 159). At the center of FCSA is a subsystem, the YESS school,…

May 8, 2024

Socialization In Organizations

Socialization is a lens communication scholars study organizational discourse through evidence of individual interactions during the process of “joining, participating in, and leaving organizations” (Kramer & Miller, 2014 p. 525 as cited in (Lamb, 2024). Generally, communication scholars view this process through the lens of assimilation, which concerns the “ongoing behavioral and…

May 4, 2024

Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Roles in Organizational Communication

Emotional approaches to the study of organizational communication seem to be of high value to scholarship concerned with communication dynamics within organizations. One specific connection, in approach and study, is the view of systems theorists and their unique approach to studying the presence of emotion within organizations. Miller (2020) offers…

May 4, 2024

Critical and Feminist Approaches – Organizational Communications

We now turn to the application of power by organizations for the various reasons organizations apply power, further, from a feminist critique, the we examine the context of women as disciplined bodies and how organizational communications can be studied from that point of view. Finally, we will address the insight…

May 4, 2024

The Cultural Metaphor – Organizations as Cultures

Introduction Through the cultural metaphor, we endeavor to see organizations through the cultural values they espouse. Investigators and scholars typically associate culture, through assessment, and approach. Prescriptive approaches descriptive approaches see the metaphor through different styles and types of evidence. In turn, we will address each and offer a baseline…

February 28, 2024

Social Exchange Theory, Dialectical Theory, and Communication Privacy Theory

Introduction Scholars of communication disciplines endeavor to explain messages between two interdependent people and defines interpersonal communication. This process focuses on how messages are offered to “initiate, define, maintain, or further a relationship” (Dainton & Zelley, 2019, p. 77). Four overarching theoretical constructs seem to reign supreme within the interpersonal…

February 17, 2024

Psychologically based theoretical perspectives on conflict interactions

In our facilitated examination of applied psychodynamics within the conflict interaction landscape, we are examined based on analysis and applied theory of three unique psychologically based theoretical constructs: psychodynamic theory, emotion-based or verbal aggressiveness theory, social cognition, or attribution theory. Our lecturer’s companion text outlines a series of events captured…

February 9, 2024

Attribution Theory & Cognitive Dissonance Theory: Case Study – You’re Fired

Steve was ecstatic following a strategic merger between U.S.-based Ryan Project Systems and German Gierig Strategin AG. Ryan, endeavoring to expand their market share, agreed to merge with international Strategin to maximize the market share of both organizations. Shortly after the merger, three Ryan employees began discussing their belief that…

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