Managing Cultural Change: A Discursive Framework for Instructional Practice

• In Event: Communication and Change: Discourses of and Tensions in Stability and Change

Abstract

This essay offers strategies for teaching students to communicatively manage discourses of cultural change by posing two fundamental questions: What communication skills do diversity managers need, and how can instructors best teach these skills to future practitioners? I examine these questions and explore their implications for instructional practice by bridging research from the fields of communication studies, management education, and instructional development.

Author

• Christopher Groscurth, University of Michigan