Organizational Communication

Order Description We will watch the film ?New in Town? in class. This film offers interesting dilemmas for the study and practice of organizational communication. Chapters 2 ? 6 in your textbook cover communication functions; communication structure; and organizational theory from control, biological, and cultural metaphorical positions. The film offers many opportunities for inquiry into these aspects of organizational life (e.g., communication functions, communication structure, the limits of managerial action, ideology, organizational socialization. age, gender, ethnicity, feminine styles of leadership, class, and positive deviance?just to name a few). As you watch the movie, look for these aspects, and then write a 3-4 page paper using proper APA style as presented by the Purdue OWL (no abstract needed) discussing facets or viewpoints you find interesting, disturbing, etc. in regards to one of these aspects. THIS ASSIGNMENT IS NOT A MOVIE REVIEW (I?ve seen the movie; I know the characters and plot); it is an exercise for you to critically evaluate one of the concepts/facets of organizational communication practice as detailed above. Use the following guidelines for headings to structure sections of your paper: I. Short introduction to a particular communication phenomenon or issue; II. A short literature review of the topic or issue; III. Examples of how the phenomenon/issue is illustrated in the film; IV. Conclusions we can draw about the phenomenon/issue as depicted. Please do not use outline form; use APA headings as directed by the Purdue OWL I will give you a copy of the PowerPoint slides I would normally present for the days we actually watch the film in class, but this information is not sufficient for your analysis; neither is using solely your Papa, Daniels, and Spiker textbook. If you need further information about the film, you can find character names, plot synopsis, etc. at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1095174/. For more scholarly source material, below are some recommended scholarly readings (all/most should be available from Wiggins Library through the Communication and Mass Media Complete database and similar databases and the library catalogue). To analyze this case, you should use at least three scholarly sources?and nearly all sources found via the Internet DO NOT QUALIFY as scholarly: Baird, J. E., & Bradley, P. H. (1979). Styles of management and communication: A comparative study of men and women. Communication Monographs, 46, 101 ? 111. Barnard, C. (1938). Functions of the executive. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Bormann, E. G., Pratt, J., & Putnam, L. (1978). Power, authority, and sex: Male response to female leadership. Communication Monographs, 45, 119 ? 155. Bullis, C. (1993). Organizational socialization research: Enabling, constraining, and shifting perspectives. Communication Monographs, 60, 10 ? 17. Bullis, C., & Bach, B. W. (1989). Socialization turning points: An examination of change in organizational identification. Western Journal of Speech Communication, 53, 273 ? 293. Cheney, G. (1983). On the various and changing meanings of organizational membership: A field study of organizational identification. Communication Monographs, 50, 342-362. Eisenberg, E. M. (1984). Ambiguity as a strategy in organizational communication. Communication Monographs, 51, 227 ? 242. Gibson, M. K., & Papa, M. J. (2000). The mud, the blood, and the beer guys: Organizational osmosis in blue collar work groups. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 28, 68 ? 88. Goyer, R. S. (1976). Communicative process as a behavioral system: Research implications for organizational communication. Speech Education, 4, 1 ? 9. Koch, S., & Deetz, S. (1981). Metaphor analysis and social reality in organizations. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 9, 1 ? 15. Lee, J., & Jablin, F. M. (1992). A cross-cultural investigation of exit, voice, loyalty and neglect as responses to dissatisfying job conditions. Journal of Business Communication, 29, 203 ? 228. Lee, J. & Jablin, F. M. (1995). Maintenance communication in superior-subordinate work relationships. Human Communication Research, 22, 220 ? 257. Lucas, K. (2011). Socializing messages in blue-collar families: Communicative pathways to social mobility and reproduction. Western Journal of Communication, 75, 95 ? 121. DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2010. 536964. Miller, V. D., & Jablin, F. M. (1991). Information seeking during organizational entry: Influences, tactics, and a model of the process. Academy of Management Review, 16(1), 92 ? 120. MacGeorge, E. L., Feng, B., & Butler, G. L. (2003). Gender difference in communication values of mature adults. Communication Research Reports, 20, 191 ? 199. Madlock, P. E., & Chory, R. M. (2014). Socialization as a predictor of employee outcomes. Communication Studies, 65, 56 ? 71. DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2013.811429. Mumby, D. K. (1989). Ideology and the social construction of meaning: A communication perspective. Communication Quarterly, 37, 291 ? 304. Mumby, D. K. & Putnam, L. L. (1992). The politics of emotion: A feminist reading of bounded rationality. Academy of Management Review, 17, 465 ? 486. Myers, S. A., Knox, R. L., Pawlowski, D. R., & Ropog, B. L. (1999). Perceived communication openness and functional communication skills among organizational peers. Communication Reports, 12, 71 ? 83. Pacanowsky, M. E., & O?Donnell-Trujillo, N. (1982). Communication and organizational cultures. Western Journal of Speech Communication, 46, 115 ? 130. Pearson, J. C., & VanHorn, S. B. (2004). Communication and gender identity: A retrospective analysis. Communication Quarterly, 52, 284 ? 299. Peus, C. (2011). Money over man versus caring and compassion? Challenges for today?s organizations and their leaders. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 32, 955 ? 960. DOI: 10.1002/job.751 Scott, C. R., & Stephens, K. K. (2009). It depends on who you're talking to...: Predictors and outcomes of situated measures of organizational identification. Western Journal of Communication, 73, 370 ? 394. DOI: 10.1080/10570310903279075. Slettli, V. K., & Singhal, A. (2016). Amplification of tacit knowledge through the positive deviance approach. Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management. 2016, 814 ? 820. Smeltzer, L. R., Glab, J., & Golen, S. (1983). Managerial communication: The merging of business communication, organizational communication, and management. Journal of Business Communication, 20(4), 71 ? 78. Smith, R. C., & Eisenberg, E. M. (1987). Conflict at Disneyland: A root-metaphor analysis. Communication Monographs, 54, 367 ? 380. Thielfoldt, D., & Scheef, D. (2005, November). Generation X and the Millennials: What you need to know about mentoring the new generations. Law Practice Today [Electronic version]. Available at https://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/articles/mgt08044.html Trice, H. M.. (1985). Rites and ceremonies in organizational cultures. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 4, 221 ? 270. Van Maanen, J., & Schein, E. H. (1979). Toward a theory of organizational socialization. Research in Organizational Behavior, 1, 209 ? 264. Willer, L. R., Bell, K. D., & Andersen, P. A. (1987). Is what we teach about organizational communication what they practice in organizations? Journal of Applied Communication Research, 15(1/2), 95 ? 112. The case report is due to the Case Study I Turnitin link on the course?s Blackboard page by 12:00 noon, October 3, 2016. Flesch Reading Ease: 14.0 Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 13.5