ABSTRACT
In heearly1980swhenIhadtheopportunitytocollaborateonaleadership study of relational control with Edna Rogers, I jumped at it. Not only was she a superb scholar, but the coding scheme she had developed as part of herdissertationcouldreadilybeappliedtothestudyofcontrolinorganiza-tions. A collaboration was an appealing prospect because the field of organizational communication was dominated by psychological and mechanistic approaches at the time (Krone, Jablin, & Putnam, 1987). Most scholars were reifying organizations and control dynamics, and few were studying actual talk. As a result, communication was greatly oversimplified.
