Comparing Male Students’ Perceptions of Workplace Communication

* Do They Speak SNAG?

* Comparing male students’ perceptions of workplace communication dilemmas with those of female students and female managers

* Introduction

* Researchers advice sources have been preoccupied with women’s and men’s communication styles at work

* Popular commentators have frequently appeared to accept a view that women’s communication styles are “naturally” and hence appropriately different from those of men: inherently more indirect, quiet and narrative focused.

* Introduction

* Cameron points out the centuries-long history of this ideology, and how it has prompted efforts to influence how women speak, a practice she refers to as “verbal hygiene”

* Studies point out: there is nothing essentially subordinate about women’s typical communication styles, rather women’s styles are constructed as subordinate in women’s interactions with men, the dominant group in our society and many others

* Introduction

* The study of gendered aspects of communication at work is now an integral part of the study of the “gendered organization”

* Changing attitudes to feminism may also influence ideas about how women should manage communication at work

* Introduction

* Media commentators argue that younger women have moved away from overt feminism

* Value judgments have shifted under the influence of modern management styles which endorse cooperative problem solving, rapport building,…

* All these are stereotypically part of the female rather than the male communication repertoire.

* Research Questions

* Research Objective

* to compare male students’ perceptions of the strategies to those of female students and female managers.

* Hypotheses

* Male management students see themselves as men and as future managers, the value placed on “female” approaches to using language at work may mean they favor less stereotypically masculine approaches to communication than is commonly supposed

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