1. Chapter 6 Lecture/Recap ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY – PART 4

2.  “…reveals the hidden but pervasive power that organizations have over individuals and over our society” (p. 154)  Looks for embedded issues of power, domination, and oppression  Asks questions about power and control  Actively questions the status quo  Examines ‘relationship between communication in organizations and issues of justice, democracy, equity, and freedom’ (p. 154) CRITICAL ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY

3.  Five Types of Social Power (French and Raven)  Reward Power  Coercive Power  Referent Power  Expert Power  Legitimate Power  Covert or Hidden Power POWER

4.  “…refers to our basic, often unexamined assumptions about how things are or ought to be” (p. 161)  Impacts how we give meaning to our realities  Can lead to oppression  Four functions of ideologies (Mumby)  ‘Represents sectional interests to be universal, denies system contradictions, naturalizes the present through reification, and functions as a form of control’ (p. 162)  Hegemony (ideological control) IDEOLOGY

5.  Examine cultural elements  Myths, stories and metaphors = common sites of ideologies  Examine taken-for-granted aspects of organization; are they masking hidden power?  Want to understand why controlling aspects are accepted  Those controlled helping to control?  Manufactured Consent  Concertive Control  Surveillance  Discourse as site of power  Role of technology IDENTIFYING HIDDEN POWER AND CONTROL

6.  Recent trends  Employees’ health and well being  Resistance  Role of critical theorist  What happens…why it happens….what is the influence of other forces (economic, political, social)  Identify problems and suggest solutions CRITICAL THEORY AND RESEARCH