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Compare managerial control with codetermination.

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Managerial control and codetermination a...

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Assuming the role of Stanley Deetz, write a response to Griffin's critique of the critical theory of communication in organizations.

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Dear Griffin,

Thank you for your though...

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How might Deetz interpret the dime-on-the-wall ritual in Dixie's classified advertising department described in the previous chapter? In general, how might Deetz respond to Pacanowsky's approach to corporate culture? How might Pacanowsky (and Geertz) respond to him?

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Deetz might interpret the dime-on-the-wa...

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Focusing particularly on issues of communication, describe the major strengths and weaknesses of Deetz' concept of participation.

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Deetz' concept of participation has seve...

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Deetz believes that there is no legitimate basis for privileging one group of stakeholders over another.

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A) True 
 B)False

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Based on your experience of corporate America, how realistic is Deetz' critical theory of organizational communication?

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Deetz' critical theory of organizational...

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Deetz' critical theory of communication:

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A)   emphasizes the structure of corporate culture.
B)   requires that researchers observe, but not influence, the corporations they study.
C)   suggests that belief will follow behavior.
D)   seeks to balance corporate and human interests.

Question 8

Through the process of consent, employees of a corporation:

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A)   reach the highest level of fulfillment.
B)   are forced to follow the company's dictates or quit.
C)   speak their minds openly, but do not participate in decision making.
D)   accomplish the interests of management in the faulty attempt to fulfill their own interests.

Question 9

The process through which a corporation suppresses potential conflict is called:

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A)   managerialism.
B)   corporate colonization.
C)   discursive closure.
D)   consent.

Question 10

Deetz' communication model emphasizes:

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A)   Shannon and Weaver's theory that communication is the transmission of information.
B)   language's role in shaping social reality.
C)   gender and ethnic aspects of managerialism.
D)   nonverbal elements of corporate culture.

Question 11

The communication model is a view that communication is merely a conduit for the transmission of information about the real world.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Consider an organization whose culture is known to you (your college or university, for example). Do the organization's managers/leaders/administrators practice discursive disclosure? What kinds of systematically distorted communication result?

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As a student at a university, I have obs...

Question 13

According to Deetz, the process by which all stakeholders in an organization negotiate power and openly reach collaborative decisions is called ________.

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A)   attentive constructionism
B)   discursive closure
C)   corporate democracy
D)   generative democracy

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Managerialism promotes workers' unwitting consent through a process of ________.

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systematic...

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