Qualitative Research Applications in Organisational Communication

Name: Qualitative Research Applications in Organisational Communication
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ISBN: 9781572733718

ISBN-10: 1572733713

ISBN-13: 9781572733718

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Sandra L. Herndon, Gary L. Kreps

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Explores the use of qualitative research methods to study organizational communication and to generate data for enhancing organizational performance and to help organizational representatives and/or consultants demystify the complexities of communicative influence on organizational studies.

Book details

List price: $26.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Hampton Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Contributors
Introduction: The Power of Qualitative Research to Address Organizational Issues	p. 1
The Place of Literature in the Space of Qualitative Organizational Communication Research	p. 11
"Who's That in My Bed?": The Strange Bedfellows Made by the Politics of Applied Qualitative Research	p. 37
Communication Processes in the Field Research Interview Setting	p. 47
Using Focus Group Interviews for Preliminary Investigation	p. 63
Narrative Analysis and Organizational Development	p. 73
Toward Helping Organizations Manage Interaction: The Theoretic and Pragmatic Merits of the Critical Incident Technique	p. 91
Accounting for Care: Different Versions of Different Stories in the Health Care Context	p. 121
The Case Study: Revitalizing a Nonprofit Health Organization	p. 151
Ethnographic Analysis of Organizational Cultures	p. 171
The Dialectical Nature of Ethnography: Liminality, Reflexivity, and Understanding	p. 185
Untold Tales From the Field: Living the Autoethnographic Life in an AIDS Residence	p. 205
On the Use of Ethnomethodology for Critical Interpretive Organizational Research	p. 227
Using Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Triangulate the Research Process: The Role of Communication in Perpetuating the Myth of Dangerous Drinking as the Norm on College Campuses	p. 251
Self-Consciousness and the Qualitative Researcher: Understanding Qualitative Methods and Organizational Ecology	p. 269
Author Index	p. 281
Subject Index	p. 293
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