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- Title
In Defense of Bullying: Protecting the Concertive Control System.
- Authors
Ormes, Greg; Ziemer, Jordan
- Abstract
In his influential work, James Barker (1993) identified three phases by which team members normalize and formalize value premises in a system of concertive control. In this paper, we make the case for a fourth stage, the defense of the system in response to internal and external criticisms. We contend that (a) when a concertive control system seems unethical to an internal or external audience and is challenged, (b) members of the concertive control system will defend the system (c) due to high levels of identification, and (d) the mechanism for defense is apologetic discourse. In order to make this argument, we analyze relevant texts that emerged in the wake of the highly-publicized case of bullying that was alleged in the Miami Dolphins organization in the Fall of 2013.
- Subjects
BULLYING; DEFENSE mechanisms (Psychology); MIAMI Dolphins (Football team); PERSONAL criticism; VICTIMS of bullying; BARKER, James
- Publication
Iowa Journal of Communication, 2019, Vol 51, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
1537-1824
- Publication type
Article