Browsing by Subject "organizational communication"
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Denying What Workers Believe Are Unethical Workplace Requests: Do Workers Use Moral, Operational, or Policy Justifications Publicly?
(Management Communication Quarterly, 2014-02-01)This message-production experiment demonstrates workers’ tendency to use organizational policy justifications when publicly denying what they privately believe are unethical requests. Working adults (N = 234) responded to ... -
Discursive positioning and planned change in organizations
(Human Relations, 2011-02-01)This study uses discursive positioning theory to explore how planned change messages influence organizational members’ identity and the way they experienced organizational change. Based on an in-depth case study of a home ... -
The Role of Identification in Giving Sense to Unethical Organizational Behavior: Defending the Organization
(Management Communication Quarterly, 2013-05-01)This language production experiment investigates communication’s role in defending, and therefore giving sense to, organizational wrongdoing. The study suggests identification may possibly reduce organizations’ moral ...