Humorous Organizing | Revealing the Organization as a Social Process

Owen Hanley Lynch

ISBN 10: 3639422538 / ISBN 13: 9783639422535

Published by AV Akademikerverlag, 2012

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Humorous Organizing | Revealing the Organization as a Social Process | Owen Hanley Lynch | Taschenbuch | 396 S. | Englisch | 2012 | AV Akademikerverlag | EAN 9783639422535 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Humorous Organizing | Revealing the Organization as a Social Process
• Publisher: AV Akademikerverlag
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639422538
• ISBN 13: 9783639422535
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 25D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 608 grams
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Synopsis

Revision with unchanged content. This book encourages us to take humor at work seriously. Although humor is usually associated with trivial or non-serious banter; it is a significant factor in the construction of organizational culture. This book provides an experience based organizational account of how organizations are produced and reproduced, as well as how organizational interaction is coupled with structure (organizational rules and resources). It is based on two ethnographic studies: the first, a year-long study of a hotel kitchen, and the second, a three-year study of a private boarding school. This long term examination of an organization’s interaction is used to illustrate how organizational interaction produces the duality of organizational structuration over time. An ethnographic communication-focused approach provides methods for recognizing multiple sites and levels of the structuration process. As a result, this approach provides a major contribution to understanding the process of structuration through agents’ actions in the context of their organizational culture. This book will appeal to those interested in the nuance and complexity of workplace interaction; specifically it is addressed to students and researchers in management, sociology, organizational and communication studies.

About the Author

(Ph.D. Texas A&M University, 2005) is an AssistantProfessor at Southern Methodist University in theDepartment of Corporate Communication andPublic Affairs. His current research interests arehumor in organizations, change andtransformation, and work /life conflict. He is aprofessor, consultant, researcher and professionalspeaker whose research on humor has beenpublished in Communication Theory.