Table of contents for 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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Preface

1. CULTURE AND ORGANIZATION

       Organization and Culture 1
       Theorizing Organization 3
       A Baseline Model of Interpenetrating Structures 8
       Our Take on Diversity 18
       Summary 26

2. COMMUNICATION AND TWO PREDOMINANTLY AFRICAN-
     AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS

       The Organizing Scheme for Reporting Our Data,
         Findings, and Theory 28
       Organization I: The Human Service Organization 29
       Organization 2: The Elementary School 29
       Method, Interpretation, and Emergent Theory 32
       Conclusion 66

3. AFRICAN-AMERICAN RULES AND RESOURCES

        Comparison to the Baseline Model 67
        Afrocentric Theory 95
        Traditional African Organizational Forms 109
        Conclusion 115

4. INTERPENETRATION OF CONTRADICTING STRUCTURES: THE
     DIVERGENT ORGANIZATION

        The Contradictions 116
        The Enculturated Organization 153
        Conclusion 159




5. THE DIVERGENT ORGANIZATION'S COMMUNICATIVE
     DOWNWARD SPIRAL

        Difficulties in Communication Processes 160
        The System as a Whole 174
        Briefly Revisiting History: Some Underpinnings
        of the System as Depicted 178
        Contemporary African-American Organizational
        Experiences 180
        African-American Communication in Predominantly
        White Corporations 181
        Conclusion 200

6.   THEORETIC APPLICATIONS

        Predominantly African-American Organizations 202
        Organizations With European-Based Cultural
        Membership 207
        Why Divergence Has a More Negative Impact
        on African-American Organizations 226
        Field Observations and Prescriptions That Validate Our
        Downward Spiral 227
        Conclusion 240

7. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? CONCEPTUALIZING THE
     CONVERGENT ORGANIZATION

        The Task Before Us 241
        Implications for Organizational Diversity 243
        Implications for African-American Organizations 246
        Turning Divergence Into Convergence 247
        The Foundation for a Humanistic Model of Organizational
        Communication: A Baseline for Theorizing the Convergent
        Organization 271
        Conclusion 280

EPILOGUE: SOME LESSONS LEARNED
APPENDIX: Gender of Interviewees by Interview Number
REFERENCES
AUTHOR INDEX
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