Papers by Brenda J. Allen
Our voices: essays in culture, ethnicity, and …, Jan 1, 2000
The Handbook of Critical Intercultural …, Jan 1, 2011
Page 1. Due to their political implications, the terms in Box 34.1 represent contemporary issues ... more Page 1. Due to their political implications, the terms in Box 34.1 represent contemporary issues that merit attention from critical intercultural communication scholars as they seek to make the world more equitable. These terms ...
… : Processes, consequences, and constructive ways of …, Jan 1, 2009
Page 181. Chapter 8 Racial Harassment in the Workplace BrendaJ. Allen Former clerk gets $44000 ra... more Page 181. Chapter 8 Racial Harassment in the Workplace BrendaJ. Allen Former clerk gets $44000 racial bias settlement with Los Gatos clinic: Supervisor used offensive code words Corrections officer's suit alleges racial harassment ...
Reframing Difference in Organizational …, Jan 1, 2010
A s organizational communication scholars increasingly respond to calls to investigate difference... more A s organizational communication scholars increasingly respond to calls to investigate difference and organizing, I urge them to heed a parallel and equally pressing need to incorporate difference into their teaching. Scholars and teachers should strive to help students understand how varying dimensions of social identity articulate with one another, with a focus on the consequences of those articulations for organizing . While difference is a focus of study in several fields, communication scholars can offer students a uniquely communicative understanding of these issues and how humans (re)produce them. Such an approach can provide pivotal insight and understanding to prepare students to interact effectively and humanely in contemporary organizational contexts, where matters of difference are ever more apparent and important. However, because teaching difference and organizing can be particularly daunting and complex, faculty can benefit greatly from resources that can guide their efforts.
Southern Journal of Communication, Jan 1, 1996
Page 1. IVocabularies of Motives in a Crisis of Academic Leadership Brenda J. Allen Phillip K. To... more Page 1. IVocabularies of Motives in a Crisis of Academic Leadership Brenda J. Allen Phillip K. Tompkins This study applies a model about discourse of divorcing individuals to the disintegration of a relationship between a formal organization and one of its employees. ...
Management Communication Quarterly, Jan 1, 2002
EJ658999 - Translating Organizational Communication Scholarship into Practice: Starting Where We ... more EJ658999 - Translating Organizational Communication Scholarship into Practice: Starting Where We Are.
Women and men communicating: Challenges and …, Jan 1, 2001
Management Learning, Jan 1, 2009
This essay aims to bring politics closer to home in two main ways. First, we address geographical... more This essay aims to bring politics closer to home in two main ways. First, we address geographical and disciplinary spaces and identities in order to propose a fruitful 'breeding ground' for critical management education (CME) in the US context: organizational and instructional communication studies. Second, we engage recent calls for selfrefl exivity among CME scholars, re-directing the critical lens from 'mainstream' management education to political dynamics embedded in our own practices. As we articulate possibilities for both institutional, theoretical and practical collaboration, we emphasize how CME and communication scholars might work together to illuminate and transform embodied relations of difference.
Communication Theory, Jan 1, 1999
Conducting scholarship and teaching about socially constructed aspects of identity (e.g., race, e... more Conducting scholarship and teaching about socially constructed aspects of identity (e.g., race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, and class) often presents challenges to communication scholars. Within this article, we discuss some of those challenges by disclosing aspects of our lived experiences as "outsiders within" the academy. Through analyzing e-mail messages that we exchanged with one another, we explore complexities of our emotions (and ensuing tears) as we experience both enchantment and disenchantment with how members of the academy deal with difference matters. We rely upon feminist standpoint epistemology as our theoretical framework, and we specify dialogic theory and ontology as a promising means by which we can transform the academy.
Sex Roles, Jan 1, 1995
A case study analyzed employees' attitudes toward, and experiences with, an intraorganizational e... more A case study analyzed employees' attitudes toward, and experiences with, an intraorganizational electronic mail system. Results revealed that females perceived e-mail to be easier to use, more efficient, and more effective than males. They also gave higher ratings of appropriateness for using e-mail to transmit certain types of messages. Females (particularly managers) were more likely than their male counterparts to rely on co-workers to learn how to use e-mail. More females used the computer system for word processing, while more males and whites (who comprised 82.2% of the sample) had off-site connections to the computer system. No other distinctions were found regarding race-ethnicity. Implications for future research are discussed.
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