Elena Gabor- PhD
- Professor (Full) at Bradley University
Elena Gabor
- PhD
- Professor (Full) at Bradley University
Organizational Communication
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The link between language and thought formed a major new exploration of twentieth-century philosophy. Languages nuance our ideas and perceptions. Though from various angles, Heidegger, Derrida, Wittgenstein forged new ways of understanding the relationship between our views of the external world and our culturally and linguistically pre-determined...
The goal of this poster is to present preliminary findings from a research study sponsored by JFSP on radio communication practices in wildland firefighting. Our research team took an inductive approach and triangulated field observations, interviews, and analysis of organizational training materials to identify current practices, challenges, and c...
The goal of this paper is to present findings from our Joint Fire Science grant funded project on radio communication. Our project sought to understand barriers and facilitators related to effective radio communication and how communication contributes to, or distracts from high reliability organizing mindfulness. In this paper we present findings...
Although communication is often cited as a contributor to organisational accidents, complexities of the communication context are still understudied. In training materials and some investigative reports, communication is often presented as an equipment issue or as a simple skill that can be picked up on the job. However, interviews with operational...
Managing wildland fire is an exercise in risk perception, sensemaking and resilient
performance. Risk perception begins with individual size up of a wildfire to determine a
course of action, and then becomes collective as the fire management team builds and
continuously updates their common perception of risk. Karl Weick has called this
“sensemakin...
This first-of-its-kind book uniquely captures the meanings of work expressed by immigrants. Their stories – from work histories to life transitions and professional journeys – are conscientiously and rigorously mapped by the academic insights of communication scholars, many of whom are immigrants themselves.
Immigrant workers’ narratives of work an...
Unclear, ambiguous communication during a wildland fire can have serious consequences for firefighters' safety. This paper grounds its observations in media richness theory and the theory of communicative action. Radio is a less rich medium than video or face-to-face communication because it relies on hearing only and it requires a longer time to c...
Engineering in the United States remains one of the least gender-balanced occupations. At the same time, with today’s globalization of the knowledge economy and current immigration policies, there has been an increased in-take of trained engineers from other countries. The goal of this study was to examine how immigrant women engineers accomplish c...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of the body in the vocational anticipatory socialization processes of classical musicians. Using grounded theory, I analyzed semi-structured interviews with 48 musicians (27 children; 21 parents) to understand how classical musicians’ bodies intermediate the meaning of work. The Aristotelian con...
Career communication focuses on Western and dominant members' work and careers in formal economies. Applying co-cultural theory to anthropological data, we show how groups, such as the Roma people, operate within dialectics of inclusion-exclusion, dignity-stigma, individual-collectivity, and legality-illegality to construct career discourses marked...
Classical music is distinguished among professions in several ways: work has to start in childhood in order to achieve proficiency; the training takes an average of 16 years in order to become a professional musician (Manturzewska, 1990); the cost of training is high; a high level of discipline is required to develop performance abilities (Sosniak,...
As organizational communication scholars, we routinely orient ourselves to organizations as places of work while often ignoring the diverse forms of communicative work and communication about our working lives that underpin such locales. In this essay, we consider how the study of meaningful work problematizes the boundaries of organizational commu...
The dominant ideology in Eastern Europe has kept and still keeps Roma people (the Gypsies) at the lowest level of society through a long list of stereotypes and active discrimination. Up to the end of the twentieth century, cinematography tended to portray Gypsies as an exotic element in romantic settings, avoiding social and political issues such...
Cover title. Thesis (M.A.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2003. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-85).
