These are the years that Marx lived (year of birth to year of death).
What is 1818-1883?
100
This theoretical approach is the earliest used in the field of organizational communication, and it is exemplified in Scientific Management principles.
What is Functionalism?
100
He is the "father" of Scientific Management.
Who is Frederick Taylor?
100
This concept can be defined as "the system of attitudes, beliefs, ideas, perceptions, and values that shape the reality of people in society."
What is ideology?
100
This is the more popular name for the "linear" model of communication.
What is the Transmission Model?
200
This concept can be explained as the difference between the value of labor purchased versus the actual value that the laborer produces.
What is Surplus Value?
200
This theoretical approach is the one that our textbook author, Dennis Mumby, most closely identifies with.
What is Critical Theory?
200
This is the "catch phrase" or slogan of Scientific Management.
What is "The one best way."
200
This is the overarching goal of Critical Theorists.
What is to liberate people from injustice, particularly for marginalized groups.
200
These are the three basic features of organizations that our definition of "org comm" assumes.
What are (a) Differentiation of tasks, (b) Interdependence, and (c) Goal orientation
300
This is the reason why Marx particularly hated Capitalism.
What is Capitalism's deceptively exploitative nature?
300
This theoretical approach can be summarized by its catch phrase: "There is nothing outside of the text"
What is Postmodernism?
300
This married couple was responsible for bringing Scientific Management principles into the home.
Who are Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.
300
Our textbook author, Dennis Mumby, describes Critical Theory as the "Discourse of ....." this.
What is "Suspicion" --- Discourse of Suspicion.
300
This type of organizational control can be seen in self-checkout stations in grocery stores.
What is Technological Control?
400
This is the name used to describe Marx's approach to studying the different systems that societies have used to distribute the wealth they create.
What is Historical Materialism?
400
This theoretical approach aims to understand the world (or, an organization) through the subjective meanings produced and performed by its members.
What is Interpretivism?
400
Under Scientific Management principles, "clock time" replaces this "old" way of approaching time.
What is "task time."
400
These are the three important aspects of "The Culture Industry" (courtesy of Adorno & Horkheimer).
What are: (a) that culture is mass-produced; (b) that it is administered from above, by elites; and (c) that it creates needs.
400
This is a form of organizational control that can be described as "identity-based."
What is Disciplinary Control?
500
His faith in the notion of societal progress toward utopia combined with his belief in the Enlightenment principle of emancipation and freedom for all, has earned Marx this label.
What is a "Critical Modernist"?
500
These are the two facets or levels of the "crisis of representation" [MUST BE ABLE TO BRIEFLY EXPLAIN!).
What are: (a) Epistemology -- that no single representation of the world can be confirmed as Objective Truth; and (b) Voice -- why it is that we still select particular voices to listen to, and not others).
500
One of the main criticisms of Scientific Management is that it overemphasizes the importance of ________ in worker motivation, and underestimates the importance of _________.
What are: money and meaning, respectively.
500
This concept involves repetitive ideological messages across a number of cultural institutions, which helps to explain how masses of people consent to their own domination.
What is hegemony?
500
According to our textbook definition of "org comm", this key phrase contained within it is both the product of communication AND a central feature of organizing.