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Perspectives in Organizational Culture and Communication, 22-26 November 2010 - CANCELLED/ POSTPONED

Faculty
Associate Professor Ester Barinaga, Associate Professor Eric Guthey, Professor Dan Kärreman, Associate Professor Robyn Remke, Associate Professor Annette Risberg, Associate Professor Mette Zølner
Course Coordinator
Professor Dan Kärreman
Prerequisite
The course applies to PhD students
Prerequisite/progression of the course
Only PhD students are accepted and the course is aimed at students with a social scientific background. In advance of the course, students are expected to produce a short empirical example drawn from their research project, which will form the basis of an assignment to be completed during the course.
Aim of the course
The course is an introduction to organizational culture and communication, emphasizing its core perspectives and inter-disciplinary roots. The course provides an invitation for students to discuss various perspectives and experiment with their applicability in empirical analysis. The course will address concepts like culture, communication, rituals, ceremonies, symbolism, discourse, identity, diversity and ethnography; theories like acculturation theory, communication theory, and discourse analysis; and themes like stakeholder analysis, organizational control, corporate social responsibility, leadership, gender studies and critical management studies.
Course content, structure and teaching
The teaching style of the course is a mixture of lectures and discussion seminars with short presentations. A large part of the course consists of dialogues in which students are expected to be very active. Students will get an assignment on the first day of the course and this will be evaluated through a presentation on the last day of the course.
The PhD student is required to hand in a paper with a maximum of 3000 words, in which she/he relates the curriculum literature in the course to his/her project. The paper must include specific references to the literature applied. Students are expected to participate actively in discussions and participation in the whole course is a prerequisite for receiving the course diploma.
The deadline for submission of paper is 25 October 2010
Learning Objectives
The course will introduce a number of different perspectives to the study of organizational culture and communication and invite students to experiment with these perspectives on selected pieces of empirical material. The objective is to help students understand and apply core ideas and perspectives, and to help them identify fruitful academic resources for their subsequent study of organizations and related phenomena
Lecture plan
Time/period    Faculty    Title   
Monday, 09:00-12:00    Dan Kärreman    Intro, Culture   
Monday, 13:00-16:00    Annette Risberg    Culture - continued   
Tuesday, 09:00-12:00    Mette Zølner    Organizational Culture in Context   
Tuesday 13:00-16:00    Ester Barinaga    Studying Culture in Practice   
Wednesday, 09:00-12:00    Dan Kärreman    Communication    
Wednesday, 13:00-16:00    Dan Kärreman    Communication - continued   
Thursday, 09:00-12:00    Robyn Remke    Communication and Identity   
Thursday, 13:00-16:00    Eric Guthey    Communication and leadership   
Friday, 09:00-12:00    Dan Kärreman    Student Presentations   
Friday, 13:00-16:00    Dan Kärreman    Student Presentations   
Course literature
Books:
  • Barinaga, E. 2009, Powerful Dichotomies – Inclusion and exclusion in the Information Society. Stockholm: EFI
  • Deetz, S 1992 Democracy in an age of corporate colonization Albany, SUNY
  • Fairhurst, G. T. 2007 Discursive leadership: In conversation with leadership psychology. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
  • Martin, J. 2002 Organizational culture: Mapping the terrain Thousand Oaks: Sage
Journal articles:
  • Ashcraft, K. L. (2007). Appreciating the 'work' of discourse: Occupational identity and difference as organizing mechanisms in the case of commercial airline pilots. Discourse & Communication, 1(1), 9-36.
  • Brannen, Mary Yoko. 2009. "Culture in Context: New Theorizing for Today's Complex Cultural Organisations", in Cheryl Nakata (ed). 2009. Beyond Hofstede. Culture Frameworks for Global Marketing and Management. London: Palgrave-Macmillan: 81-96.
  • Clarke, C. A., Brown, A. D., & Hailey, V. H. (2009). Working Identities? Antagonistic discursive resources and managerial identity. Human Relations, 62(3), 323-352.
  • Down, S., & Reveley, J. (2009). Between narration and interaction: Situating first-line supervisor identity work. Human Relations, 62(3), 379-401.
  • Iribarne (d'), Phippe. 2009. "Conceptualizing National Cultures: An Anthropological Perspective", European Journal of International Management, 2009, 3 (2): 167-196.
  • Iribarne (d'), Phippe. 2003. "The combination of Strategic Games and Moral Community in the Functioning of Firms ", Organization Studies, 24 (8): 1283-1307.
  • Kuhn, T. (2006). A 'demented work ethic' and a 'lifestyle firm': Discourse. identity, and workplace time commitments. Organization Studies, 27(9), 1339-1358.
  • Thomas, David et al. 2008. "Cultural Intelligence. Domain and Assessment". International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, 2008 8(2): 123-143.
Enrolment
Please send your application to Maja Dueholm (md.ikl@cbs.dk) before 19 October 2010

Sidst opdateret af Maja Dueholm 20.10.2010