Leading Organizations through Transition: Communication and Cultural Change / Edition 1

by Stanley Deetz

Overview

This book addresses the role of communication in cultural change efforts within organizations, especially during periods of transition, mergers, technological innovations and globalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900761920976
Publication date:	11/18/1999
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Stanley Deetz, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus and a President’s Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research and professional practice has focused organizational culture and change, micro-practices of power in organizations, and designing interaction processes for collaborative decision-making. Deetz is author/co-author of over 150 scholarly essays and several books including Leading Organizations through Transitions, Doing Critical Management Research, Managing Interpersonal Communication, Transforming Communication-Transforming Business, and Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar and is a National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar and an International Communication Association Past-President and Fellow. He has lectured widely giving well over one hundred visiting scholar and invited lectures in twenty-four countries.

Dr. Sarah J. Tracy (Ph.D., University of Colorado, 2000) is associate professor or organizational communication. Her scholarly work examines emotion, communication and identity in the workplace with particular focus on emotional labor, workplace bullying, burnout and work-life wellness

Table of Contents

Introduction                                       ixLeadership and Cultural Management                 x What This Book Does                                xi Overview of the Chapters                           xii Acknowledgments                                    xv   Managing Hearts, Minds, and Souls                1   Assessing and Changing Organizational Culture    29   Vision and Cultural Development                  49   Guiding Interpretations and the Art of Framing   67   Employee Participation and Cultural Change       92   The Ethics of Cultural Control and               116   Organizational Change   Culture and Technological Change                 143   Managing Culture Through Transition Periods      160   Managing Culture in Multinational                183   Organizations   Putting a Change Process Together                196 Index                                              221 About the Authors                                  231