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What is meant with the institutionalization of cognitive space?

Cognitive spaces that continue for a prolonged (langdurig) period of time easily become institutionalized: regarded as categories/groups of people that exist outside a specific social context (for ex. cities, men/women, industries)

What are the most commonly recognized organization theories? (3 paradigms)

1 Functionalist - managerialist: objective reality which includes organizational characteristics such as structure and communication (it deals with the more traditional frameworks, like structure).
2 Radical-views, influenced bij Marx: analysis at the employee level with special attention to subordinates, attention to relations of power (concern at individual level: what would happen with employees in the industrial organization).
3 Postmodern: partly drwas on radical ideas and also on hermeneutic tradition, emphasizes perceptions/interpretations/enactments by actors (the use of language/demographics/gender etc., and how this influence social interaction and people).

What are the 4 organization theories? (this stems from the broader society/sociology)

1 Social constructionism
2 Diverse identities/racioethnicity and gender theories
3 Social identity theory (SIT)
4 Organization demography

-> This are theories of the postmodern paradigm

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According to social constructionism ideas are rooted in critical theory, beliefs include (3)?

1 There is no 'one best way' in term of structures/systems/processes; reject universalism (Reed & Hughes)
2 People create meaning via language and other symbols
3 Language is:
A Forming/performing/constructing (rather than representing reality) it serves as a symbol
B  A social process-sense-making (Weick)
C Process for constructing includes discourses (Burr), accounting (Harre) and enactment (Weick)

->Language is communicated very strongly is the mission statement of the organisation, it is as a symbol.

What 6 things are socially constructed in organizations?

1 Embeddedness of systems, practices, policies and ideas which includes structure and identity
2 Power relations: lines of communication, chains of command, participation
3 Stories and myths: represent the legitimate power relations, shared construction, symbols
4 Stifling (onderdrukken) of conflict: disables people in promoting their views/interests/creativity
5 Production of knowledge: who, what, why, how, when?
6 Identity: people have shifting identities interrelating with contextual and other factors.

Summarize the organization therory 'social constructionism':

It oppens up the possibility of representing different social issues such as disability and gender. The power of social constructionism is that things could be (done) differently.

Another organization theory is the 'diverse identities in organizations', what is the controlling idea of this theory?

The evolution of diversity research and practice includes legislation for achieving a diverse workforce and theories of 'how to' achieve workgroup effectiveness.

What is diversity (Nkomo & Stewart)?

A mixture of people with different group identities within the same social system.

According to Cox & Blake's multicultural model there are 3 types of organizations, which 3?

1 Monolithic (white males)
2 Pluralism (heterogenous, but imbalance in responsible roles/power sharing
3 Multicultural (integration of non-dominant members and their ideas)
> The more diversity the richer the organization (for important decisions)

Summarize the diversity research in organization theories:

Research replete (verzadigd) with negative effects on the careers of ethnic minorities and white females (exclusion from organizational networks and other forms of restricted career mobility).

What is the controlling idea of re-writing gender into organizational theory?

Limited attention has been given to the gendered nature of organizations or in understanding the social construction of gender. Gendered processes and practices reflect and reinforce prevailing conceptions of masculinity and feminity e.g. executive level females more masculine traits are rewarded.

Summarize postmodern and critical theories of racioethnicity and gender?

Postmodern and critical theories of racioethnicity and gender offer fuel for greater reflection and provide a platform for inclusive and integrative approaches for responding to the challenges of the diverse workplace, and provide more understanding for organizational performance in the international context.

What examines group demographics?

The group processes and outcomes as a function of group composition, incl. demographics/non-visible characteristics such as personality

What is the focus of relational demography?

It focuses on individual's demographic similarity to a given group, assessing each members' similarity by taking into account the demographic characteristics of others in the group.

Summarize the demography research:

Communication, trust, and openess at all levels of an organization are required in order to achieve an inclusive environment which values diversity. However, a diverse and functional workforce can not be achieved without attention to historical, social and political structures of oppression (onderdrukking) and domination.

Describe the organization theory: the social identity theory (SIT)?

SIT is a social psychology cognitieve theory which holds that individuals tend to classify themselves and others into social categories and that these classifications have a significant effect on human interaction.
> How we categorize people. A process of organizing.

What do SIT theorist pose (stellen)? (3)

1 Identify specific contextual influences on identification process
2 Identify the influence of two-way/reciprocal processes between organizations/workgroup members
3 Address more fully the notion that members of any given social group vary.

Summarize the social identity theorie:

SIT offers ways to gain a broad understanding of diversity effects, it does not address the question of the specific content of socially marked identity categories. It also does not address the organization structures/systems. It cannot fully account for the saturated (verzadigde) significance of race, gender, class and sexual orientation so deeoply rooted in history and social experience.

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