Abstract In this paper, a new role for managers is advocated to create conditions for genuine collaborative engagement in Twenty-First Century organizations. The new role is as a facilitator of emancipatory dialogue, a discourse among parties that can lead to mutual learning, deep understanding and insight, and collaborative consciousness and action. The facilitator role is … Continue reading The Manager as Facilitator of Dialogue Joseph A. Raelin
Introduction I am collecting videos that demonstrate and compare various genres of discourse. Currently, I am just collecting the videos, but I plan to comment later on each one. If you have any suggestions for good videos or other genres of discourse, please let me know. I use the word discourse to mean any spoken … Continue reading Varieties of Discourse Discourse – a verbal interchange of ideas especially conversation
Numerous words describe the varied forms of conversation and speech. This page lists some of the more common ones in alphabetic order. The descriptions are extracted in real-time from Wikipedia using the Wikipedia API. Posts that link to this post The Language of Conversation and Speech Digging into their meaningPOST NAVIGATION Pop-up all posts in this … Continue reading The Language of Conversation and Speech Wikipedia descriptions of words describing conversation and speech
The meaning of dialogue The word dialogue has several meanings depending on the context in which it is used. If you look up the word in most dictionaries, you will find definitions like this. A conversation between two or more persons. e.g. A discussion about the subject took place. The exchange of opinions between people … Continue reading Dialogue Dialogue is a disciplined form of conversation
