Relative importance of stakeholders
Analysing speech acts in a layoff
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12169073 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wendy L Guild (University of Denver, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 837-852 |
| Publication date | 2002-08-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Organizational Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-3796 • E-ISSN: 1099-1379 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/job.170 |
| OpenAlex | W2120757219 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 38 |
Grounded in a participant observation study of a ski resort, this paper explores the (re)production of legitimate discourses through speech acts pertaining to an organizational event, a layoff. Manager's justifications and employees' reactions and critiques put sanctioned discourses into play. And while the stated organizational values include shareholder, customer, and employee concerns, the relative importance of these stakeholders is only made clear through the conversation of the speech acts and their reception. The shape of the conversation, in locution, illocution and perlocution, shifts the relations between managers and the employees and creates longer term consequences for the organization. This focus on language use serves as a micro‐foundation for the study of legitimation processes and its consequences within organizations. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Business · Conversation · Economics · Layoff · Legitimation · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Communication · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
The business of talk
Sensemaking in organizations
Crossing the Great Divide
Institutions and organizations
Acquiring Organizational Legitimacy Through Illegitimate Actions
Managing Legitimacy
Foundations in sociolinguistics
Talk at work
Directions in sociolinguistics
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
The Re-Construction of Organization Studies
Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, Microanalysis, and the Ethnography of Speaking (EM-CA-MA-ES)
Discourse and the Projection of Corporate Culture
Managerial accounts of downsizing
Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, Microanalysis, and the Ethnography of Speaking (EM-CA-MA-ES)
Ethnomethodology's Program
Death Imagery and the Experience of Organizational Downsizing
Mltiple Decision-making Structures in Adapting to Environmental Uncertainty
Rhetoric, Ritualism, and Totemism in Human Resource Management
Uncovering and Explaining Variance in the Features and Outcomes of Contingent Work
Philosophical investigations
Organization as an Effect of Mediation
Discourse on Women in the Clerical Profession
Speech Acts
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |