6.1 (Mumby and Stohl 1996)

Organizational communication as a discipline can be looked under the framework of 4 problematics.

The problematic of:

1. voice: characterized by multiple voices, not only managerial.
   + organizational communication cultivates tensions between university and firms, rather than resolving it.
   + how voices can gain insight into marginalized groups.
   
2. rationality
   + pluralist understandings + technical rationality: “knowledge that privileges a concern with prediction, control and teleological forms of behavior”.
   + Practical rationality: “knowledge grounded in the human interest in interpreting and experiencing the word as meaningful and intersubjectively constructed”
   
3. organization
   + The question of organization is fundamental in organizational communication.
   + the complex structure of organizing, culture and larger social processes.
   
4. organization-society relationship
   + organizational boundaries (separation between organization and society) cannot be clearly defined due to its fluid nature.
   + can study the dynamics nature of globalization.
   + communication is not just information exchange, but it is the core of organizing where organization structure is dynamically created.

References

Mumby, Dennis K., and Cynthia Stohl. 1996. “Disciplining Organizational Communication Studies.” Management Communication Quarterly 10 (1): 50–72. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318996010001004.