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Strategic Dissent: Expressions of Organizational Dissent Motivated by Influence Goals

International Journal of Strategic Communication, 2009
Organizational dissent is important in promoting better decision-making and increasing employee commitment and satisfaction, yet expressing dissent can be risky in many organizations where disagreement is discouraged. This study proceeded from the perspective that employees dissent strategically and that the relationship between conversational goals ...
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Organizational Dissent and Servant-Leadership

International Journal of Servant-Leadership, 2013
Dissent is the choice to disagree and challenge the majority view of those holding positional power (Gordon 2008, 20; Martin 2008, 22). In some organizations, dissenting banter may be part of the process of healthy decision making and innovation. Dissenting conversations may initiate perturbations through the complex interactions of organizational ...
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The Power of One: Dissent and Organizational Life

Journal of Business Ethics, 2006
Over the last 20 years, organizations have attempted numerous innovations to create more openness and to increase ethical practice. However, adult students in business classes report that managers are generally bureaucratically oriented and averse to constructive criticism or principled dissent.
Nasrin Shahinpoor, Bernard F. Matt
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Mimetic and dissent conditions in organizational rhetoric

Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1990
Two situational constraints are examined, a dissent condition, which fosters tolerance for dissent, and a mimetic condition, which inhibits dissent. The organizational theory concern that organizational values may dominate over individual values, and the rhetorical theory concern regarding the quality of mimesis, are likely the same problem and lead to
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Raised to Dissent: Family-of-Origin Family Communication Patterns as Predictors of Organizational Dissent

Journal of Family Communication, 2013
This article extends Kassing's (1997, 1998) model of organizational dissent by evaluating the extent to which family-of-origin communication predicts upward (i.e., to superior) and lateral (i.e., to peer) dissent. Specifically, building from Koerner and Fitzpatrick's theory of family communication schemas, we predicted that family communication ...
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Simulating Dissent: Mapping the Life Span of Organizational Dissent using Agent-Based Modeling

Western Journal of Communication, 2016
Organizational dissent is a process that begins long before any disagreement is spoken and continues long after a dissent conversation ends. However, studying the entire dissent process would require extensive data collection across multiple levels of analysis.
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Expressions of Dissent in Email: Qualitative Insights Into Uses and Meanings of Organizational Dissent

International Journal of Business Communication, 2013
This study explores the role of email in organizational dissent expression and employees’ perceptions of the rules for using this medium.
Hastings, Sally O., Payne, Holly J.
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Development and Validation of the Organizational Dissent Scale

Management Communication Quarterly, 1998
The general trend toward more democratic forms of organizing highlights the necessity to consider how employees engage their organizations in participative environments. Assessing employee dissent represents one means of understanding the dialogue between employee and employer.
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Exploring Collective and Multi-Audience Dissent in Organizational Meetings

Management Communication Quarterly, 2022
Organizations without healthy dissent stagnate from myopic thinking. Previous research has examined how employees might dissent to supervisors or coworkers, but little research has focused on how dissent might be expressed to multiple audiences simultaneously. Dissent conversations might happen only once or might be repeated over time, but the ways in
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Troublemaker or Problem-Solver? Perceptions of Organizational Dissenters

Western Journal of Communication, 2019
This study sought to explore potential differences in organizational dissent seen as troublemaking and dissent seen as problem-solving.
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