Communication and Theatre 4/514
Issues in Organizational Communication
Emergent Organizing
What is a laminated discourse?
If communication is bi-dimensional, what are the dimensions?
• Sensemaking
• Criticism
One of the most important things you can learn to appreciate is that it is almost always both/and instead of either/or. What does this mean?
What is the difference between a lived world and an interpreted world?
How about the difference between conversation (site) and text (surface)?
Resources available =
• History
• Language
Constraints =
• Rules of interaction (to belong)
• Rules of language (to participate)
Narrativization = the sanctioned communication as to what the organization is.
Narrative (talk about organizing) =
• Represents organizational reality
• Instantiates organizational reality
How might we self organize?
Conversation = the total of languaging. What does that mean?
All informal and formal communication is available for interpretation.
What is a spectrum of communication?
What is text?
What we formalize from our conversation.
People enter conversation with:
• Real (lived experience; real)
• Symbolic (the used language)
Thus, through experience and language we co-construct organizing.
To converse we need to:
• Talk understandably
• Follow conversational rules
In sum, communication is:
• Contextual
• Situated
• Occasional
• Grounded
• Iterative
• Cumulative
What is the difference between a vehicle and a destination?
What is the difference between a reason for an occurrence and a cause of it?
• Know
• Should
• Would
• Could
A large amount of additional freight (meaning) is carried in a sentence.
Our conversations involve both action (pragmatic) and intention (cognitive).
Stories are contests of meaning, succeeding or failing, in the context of opposition.
So, we have stories and anti-stories; protagonists and antagonists.
local situation
individual texts
assemble texts
community text
The point of all of this is to conceptualize the emergence of a self organizing community
authentizing, voicing,
publication
conversation
thoughtco-creation, convergence
End of Emergent Organizing Session