{"title":"Chrysanthemums and swords: A reading of contemporary organizational communication theory and research","authors":"C. Conrad","doi":"10.1080/10417948509372631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948509372631","url":null,"abstract":"CERTAIN TRUTHS ABOUT THE SOCIAL SCIENCES today seem self‐evident. One is that in recent years there has been an enormous amount of genre mixing in social science, as in intellectual life generally, and such blurring of kinds is continuing apace. Another is that many social scientists have turned away from a laws‐and‐instances ideal of explanation toward a cases‐and‐interpretations one, looking less for the sort of thing that connects planets and pendulums and more for the sort that connects chrysanthemums and swords. … Something is happening to the way we think about the way we think (Geertz, 1970, pp. 165, 166).","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124979957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organizational Communication as Cultural Performance: Some Managerial Considerations.","authors":"Nick Trujillo","doi":"10.1080/10417948509372632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948509372632","url":null,"abstract":"This essay uses the metaphor of “performance” from an interpretive perspective as a guide to understand the nature of managerial communication. As developed from an interpretive perspective, “performances” are conceptualized not in the “bottom line” sense of organizationally productive behavior but in the “dramaturgical” and “cultural” sense of those situationally variable interactions in which managers and other members construct senses of organizational identity and reality. This essay develops three managerial performances of “rationality” “sociability,” and “authority” and illustrates these processes with observational data taken from a field study of managerial communication.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"41 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121178017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to Read Interpretive Accounts of Organizational Life: Narrative Bases of Textual Authority.","authors":"Mary S. Strine, Michael E. Pacanowsky","doi":"10.1080/10417948509372636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948509372636","url":null,"abstract":"Recently our discipline has given much attention to the “interpretive approach” to the study of organizational communication. Although much discussion of this approach has focused on theoretical and methodological issues, that evaluating interpretive research remains problematic has become increasingly clear. In this paper, we propose a schema for categorizing interpretive research based on current narrative theory. We examine authorial stance, authorial status, and author‐audience contact in four contemporary interpretive accounts of organizational life. We are not attempting to provide specific evaluative criteria for interpretive research in organizational communication; rather, the purpose of the analysis is to illuminate a framework within which evaluation may profitably occur. One result of our analysis is to show that, since interpretive research is productively “polyphonic,” no single set of evaluative criteria can be applied to all interpretive research.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133755523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Argument in Bargaining: An Analysis of the Reasoning Process.","authors":"Linda L. Putnam, Patricia Geist","doi":"10.1080/10417948509372633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948509372633","url":null,"abstract":"Bargaining is accomplished through arguments and persuasive appeals. This study aims to understand the way argumentation in bargaining shapes outcomes. It examines the types of claims and reasoning processes that characterize bargaining interaction on different subissues of a proposal. It tracks the development of arguments through sequential sessions and caucus meetings by examining similarities and differences in the reasoning process on subissues that are dropped, modified, or retained in the final agreement. The issues and subissues examined in this study emanate from problems teachers faced in organizational communication. Thus, in studying argumentation in bargaining, we are examining variables that grow out of and affect the daily routines of organizational members.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128136520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender and leadership emergence: An experimental study","authors":"Judith M. Bunyi, P. Andrews","doi":"10.1080/10417948509372634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948509372634","url":null,"abstract":"This investigation examined the skill and gender of individual group discussants and the gender composition of the group as factors potentially affecting perceptions of emergent leadership. Results highlighted the relationship between performing procedural behaviors and being perceived as a group leader and pointed to complexities associated with the group's gender composition. Although acknowledging the role of gender, however, the results confirmed that task competence was crucially related to any individual's emerging as a group's leader.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116453396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An exploratory study of vocational organizational communication socialization","authors":"Fredric M. Jablin","doi":"10.1080/10417948509372635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948509372635","url":null,"abstract":"This study was concerned with determining if people develop perceptions of the communication behaviors of organizational/occupational roles during the process of vocational socialization. Specifically, this research attempted to discover (as reported by a cross‐sectional sample of 311 teachers) what occupations students talk and read about in school, the types of “communicator styles” students attribute in class discussions and assigned readings to persons fulfilling these roles, and whether these attributions vary as students progress from elementary school to high school. In general, the findings of the investigation are supportive of the notion that class discussions and assigned readings in school may be an important source of communication‐related vocational information for individuals during their childhood and adolescent years.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115454363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inappropriate operationalizations promote invalid conclusions: A response to McCallum","authors":"M. Lustig","doi":"10.1080/10417948509372625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948509372625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129720650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sex differences, communication consistency, and judgments of sexual harassment in a performance appraisal interview","authors":"Martin S. Remland, T. Jones","doi":"10.1080/10417948509372629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948509372629","url":null,"abstract":"Survey research indicates that the problem of sexual harassment in organizations is both significant and widespread. Judgments of sexual harassment appear to be influenced, however, by the sex of the judge and the actions of the perpetrator. In this factorial design survey, the effects of the target's communication behavior and the sex of the judge on judgments of sexual harassment were examined. Judges were presented with vignettes which varied the verbal and nonverbal responses of the target to the perpetrator to create conditions of consistent and inconsistent communication. The results provided some support for the hypothesis that judges would perceive more sexual harassment, would disapprove of the perpetrator more, and would approve of the target more, as the target's responses to the perpetrator were increasingly negative. Although judgments of sexual harassment were not affected by the sex of the judge, female judges showed more disapproval of the perpetrator than did male judges. The essay offers...","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116673470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring group maturity: The development of a process‐oriented variable for small group communication research","authors":"Karl J. Krayer, S. Fiechtner","doi":"10.1080/10417948409372623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948409372623","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the conceptualization and measurement of group maturity, a process‐oriented variable which focuses on small groups as a collectivity instead of on the individuals within the group. After examining the sources of this concept in organizational behavior literature, the essay traces the development and testing of scales to measure it. Finally, the essay discusses recent efforts to investigate group maturity aid future directions for small group and organizational communication research.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"704 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115125140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wallace and the Wallacites: A reexamination","authors":"J. Hogan","doi":"10.1080/10417948409372620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10417948409372620","url":null,"abstract":"Challenging the conventional portrait of Governor George C. Wallace's supporters, this essay uses survey data to show that Wallacites were not united by conservative political ideology but by feelings of political neglect, persecution, and pessimism. An examination of Wallace's rallies reveals dimensions of his rhetoric which account for such a coalition. The essay argues that both Wallace and Wallacites are best understood, not in conventional political or rhetorical terms, but in terms of the classic Hofferian model of social protest.","PeriodicalId":234061,"journal":{"name":"Southern Speech Communication Journal","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115344515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}