Definitions
This is when a member of an organization protects it by through language - denying, rationalizing the organization's actions.
Linguistic Defensiveness
How does increased organizational tenure affect levels of linguistic defensiveness (one sentence)?
Longer tenure increases defensiveness levels.
The time Edward Norton's character spends at his office job and the time he spends afterwards building the fight club are both examples of this concept.
Organizational tenure.
This is when one positions the organization's values as aligned with one's own.
Organizational identification.
How would decreased organizational identification affect levels of linguistic defensiveness?
Less OI would decrease LD.
A Starbucks worker saying that "refusing to speak up against the invasion of Palestine does not mean that Starbucks supports genocide" is an example of this concept.
Rationalization, as in linguistic defensiveness.
"communicative attempts to influence how moral meaning is assigned to events or actions" (Ploeger & Bisel, 2013, p.5).
Ethical sensegiving.
How would a longer organizational tenure affect levels of organizational identification?
Longer tenure would increase OI.
Tyler Durden preaching the values of the fight club means he partakes in _______ with the fight club (concept).
Organizational identification.
Time a person spends at a job.
Organizational tenure
How would increased certainty of wrongdoing affect linguistic defensiveness?
Tyler Durden positing the violence he doles out as part of the fight club activities as "necessary" is an example of him conducting this concept.
Ethical sensemaking.
How surely guilt can be assigned in the case of unethical behaviour within an organization.
Wrongdoing ambiguity
Name the three elements that can affect levels of linguistic defensiveness listed in the article.
Organizational identification, wrongdoing ambiguity, organizational tenure.
The split personality of Edward Norton (unnamed) and Brad Pitt (Tyler Durden) offers the viewer a different perspective on who has ethical responsibility for the fight club - a storytelling device used for ________ (concept).
Wrongdoing ambiguity.