Exam 7: Identity and Difference in Organizational Life

The organizational logic that highlights the unspoken but pervasive norm that also requires African Americans to prove to potential employers that they do not conform to racial stereotypes by adopting a "middle-class" persona is often referred to as

Identity work and identity regulation are essentially the same process.

Which of the following terms captures the significant labor that women perform in the private sphere for which they receive little compensation or gratitude?

A significant goal of many organizations is to regulate and control their members' identities. Which of the following examples of identity regulation describes how organizational communication creates and naturalizes taken-for-granted ways of doing and being?

What does it mean to have a fixed identity? What implications does this approach to identity and difference have for organizations?

The argument that individuals can be real and honest in the way that they live and work with others is also known as

Organizational members who adopt the surfer image tend to enact which of the following theories of organizational communication?

Development of personal brands has become so prevalent that even stay-at-home mothers are developing branding strategies by doing all of the following EXCEPT

Using the concepts from Chapter 7 as support for your argument, take a position on the following statement: "Organizations should be gender-neutral spaces where the differences between men and women are not a part of the communication practices." Defend your position using detailed examples.

Organizational members often use identity markers, such as gender or race, to highlight differences between individuals.

As part of his storyteller image, H. L. "Bud" Goodall wrote himself into being as a man who lived with a terminal illness by keeping a scholarly blog, where he chronicled his life in

Which of the following images of identity is particularly good at drawing upon a variety of resources in order to build a coherent and distinct identity?

Men and women both experience the phenomenon of the second shift in fairly equal ways.

Organizations attempt to control member identities by defining people according to their positions within the organization.

In Martin and her colleagues' research on interethnic conversations, the feeling of being controlled, manipulated, and trapped as a result of others taking charge is referred to as

Gender is a "difference that often makes a difference" in organized contexts.

Patricia Parker's research suggests that, in addition to being gendered, organizations are also

African American men and women faced communication issues routinely in their organizational interactions and adopted a variety of conversational strategies to make their workplace interactions more productive and satisfying.

Women who work outside the home typically still do twice as much housework as their male partners.

Allen offers three strategies that enable individuals and groups to better communicate multiple identities. Which of the following is not one of those strategies?