PhD Courses in Denmark

Welcome to Organizing and the Contemporary Workplace: The Work of Communication

Description:

Following the ‘linguistic turn’ in organization studies, the organization is considered a construct that emerges from the communicative, embodied and material efforts by the people who populate it. From this perspective, then, becoming a member of an organization is not merely a matter of being molded into shape or abiding by organizational rules and culture, as suggested by previous research into organizational socialization, but is a situated, communicative process, acknowledging the special condition of the employee.

The PhD-course will foreground communication and discourse as the vehicles for organizational socialization taking a closer look at how identity, affect, power and relationality discursively interact to construct employee-organization relations. Following changes in work, organizing, economics and politics in recent decades, this has become a pivotal discussion to address concerns such as job insecurity, precarity and anxiety as well as value creation and changes to work-life. 

The PhD-course invites students from across the social sciences and humanities to join the conversation on these concepts. In addition, students will be introduced to theories and methods that will help them analyze organizational socialization and membership from a communications / discourse perspective.

Guided by faculty with deep experience in course disciplines, students will leave this course with a more robust understanding of communicative and organizational processes of socialization that respond to ongoing societal transformations of work. Furthermore, students will be encouraged to use the insights from the course in the pursuit of their unique and diverse research interests.

For additional information, updates, and registration, please refer to AAU PhD Moodle via the link provided on the right side of this page.