Abstract
The goals of this study are to (1) explore how organizational members construct and reconstruct their realities through everyday speech, and (2) identify the organizational communication patterns emerging in the Chinese/Taiwanese organization. All the naturally-occurring interactions suggest that the organizational reality of TECO is that of a humanistic and harmonious small society struggling with transition. Traditional and "new" communication patterns are distributed across different contexts of organizational action. Finally, the indigenous data shows that communication patterns of a Chinese/Taiwanese organization such as TECO are not necessarily coincident with those cross-cultural studies that simply adopted Western constructs to test Chinese.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
34
Issue
1
First Page
61
Last Page
83
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Chin, Li-Li
(2002)
"The Talking Culture of TECO: Communication Patterns in a Taiwanese Organization,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 34:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol34/iss1/6
Copyright
©2002 Iowa Communication Association
