Feminization unveiled: management qualities in contemporary writings

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Qualities that are culturally associated with females are appearing in descriptions of managerial work in the texts of contemporary writers, and these texts function as carriers of a feminine ethos to practicing managers. The article describes a mechanism - management writings - used to disseminate and legitimate a management idea. It examines the nature of the rhetoric used in management writings and the implication of authors' failure to label the idea by its name: feminization. This "feminization" is discussed from both women's voice and poststructuralist perspectives. Implications for management theorizing and future research are described. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Executives, Records and correspondence, Organizational behavior, Femininity

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Toward a theory of communicative interactions in culturally diverse workgroups

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This article develops a set of predictions for interactions in culturally diverse workgroups. A typology of organizations and corresponding workgroups is detailed, adapted from Cox's (1991) model of monolithic, plural, and multicultural organizational types, followed by a discussion of how organization and workgroup conditions influence workgroup members to emphasize either categorization or specification in cognitive processing. Next, a series of positive and negative communicative interaction types is predicted based on type of processing. Finally, a discussion of the implications for further research and potential application is presented. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Social aspects, Work groups, Teamwork (Workplace), Communications, Culture, Communication and culture, Workplace multiculturalism, Workplace diversity

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Reconsidering openness in organizational communication

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Much organizational theory and research is characterized by an uncritical acceptance of the efficacy of open communication. In this critique, the lack of support for this view of openness is discussed. A contingency perspective that more accurately reflects the political nature of organizational life is proposed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Usage, Interpersonal relations

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