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BL
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984737
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b739107
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Nicotera, Anne Maydan,1963-
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Understanding organizations through culture and structure : : relational and other lessons from the African-American organization /\ Anne Maydan Nicotera, Marcia J. Clinkscales with Felicia R. Walker.
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| Publication Statement
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Mahwah, N.J. :: Lawrence Erlbaum,, 2003.
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| Series Statement
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LEA's communication series
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1 online resource (xv, 326 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0805837280
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: 1135653003
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: 1138011304
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: 1410607488
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: 9780805837285
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: 9781135653002
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: 9781135653040
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: 9781135653057
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: 9781138011304
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: 9781410607485
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0805837280
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-297) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Cultural and Organization -- Organization and Culture -- Theorizing Organization -- A Baseline Model of Interpenetrating Structures -- Our Take on Diversity -- Communication and Two Predominantly African-American Organizations -- The Organizing Scheme for Reporting Our Data, Findings, and Theory -- Organization I: The Human Service Organization -- Organization 2: The Elementary School -- Method, Interpretation, and Emergent Theory -- African-American Rules and Resources -- Comparison to the Baseline Model -- Afrocentric Theory -- Traditional African Organizational Forms -- Interpentration of Contradicting Structures: The divergent Organization -- The Contradictions -- The Enculturated Organization -- The Divergent Organizations Communicative Downward Spiral -- Difficulties in Communication Processes -- The System as a Whole -- Briefly Revisiting History: Some Underpinnings of the System as Depicted -- Contemporary African-American Organizational Experiences -- African-American Communication in Predominantly -- White Corporations -- Theoretic Applications -- Predominantly African-American Organizations -- Organizations With European-Based Cultural Membership -- Why Divergence Has a More Negative Impact on African-American Organizations -- Field Observations and Prescriptions That Validate Our Downward Spiral -- Where Do We Go From Here? Conceptualizing The Convergent Organization -- The Task Before Us -- Implications for Organizational Diversity -- Implications for African-American Organizations -- Turning Divergence Into Convergence -- The Foundation for a Humanistic Model of Organizational Communication: A Baseline for Theorizing the Convergent Organization.
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An examination of organizations and the communication processes within them. Presenting research conducted by the authors, it explores problems related to task and relational orientations as they relate to organizational structure and function within predominantly African-American organizations.
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African American business enterprises.
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African Americans-- Communication.
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Communication in organizations-- United States, Case studies.
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Diversity in the workplace-- United States, Case studies.
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Organizational behavior-- United States, Case studies.
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African American business enterprises.
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African Americans-- Communication.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Negotiating.
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Communication in organizations.
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Diversity in the workplace.
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Fallstudiensammlung
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Kommunikation
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Organizational behavior.
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Unternehmen
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Communicatie.
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Negers.
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Organisatiecultuur.
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Organisaties.
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Schwarze.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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302.3/5/08996073
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| LC Classification
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HD30.3.N53 2003eb
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85.08bcl
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QP 345rvk
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| Added Entry
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Clinkscales, Marcia J.
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Walker, Felicia R.
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| Cover Title
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Understanding organization through culture and structure
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