ICOS Presents:

"Dialectics and Paradoxes as Discursive Strategies for Organizational Analysis"

Professor Linda Putnam

Department of Communication, Texas A&M University

April 13, 2007

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Accompanying Slides - Start time given in (HH:MM:SS)

Introduction (00:00:00)

Title Slide (00:03:10)

Early Work on Contradictions and Paradoxes in Organizations (00:04:20)

Purpose of Talk (00:10:50)

Glossary of Terms (00:14:20)

Approaches to Managing Dialectics and Paradoxes (00:21:05)

Approaches to Managing Dialectics and Paradoxes (00:22:33)

Classic Contradictions in Organizational Life (00:25:00)

Perspective on Dialectics (00:27:45)

Dialectical Tensions in Current Literature (00:37:00)

Dialectical Tensions in Current Literature (00:43:30)

Alternative Response to Dialectical Tensions (00:56:03)

Transforming Communicative Practices (00:58:30)

Questions (01:00:00)

Presentation of Tile (01:25:00)

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