1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of viewing organizational communication in terms of power? 2. Trace the historical roots of critical approaches. Do you think critical theorizing is still relevant today? Why or why not? 3. What are some different views of the nature of power in organizations? 4. What is ideology, and how does it both enable and constrain communication in organizations? 5. What roles do metaphors, myths, and stories play in maintaining and trans- forming existing power relations? 6.What is concertive control? What are some examples of concertive control that you have experienced as an employee or a consumer? 7.What is discourse? How are discourse and organizational knowledge related to one another? 8. What elements, if any, of the panopticon still exist in contemporary institutions? 9.What role does electronic surveillance play in the exercise of power at work? 10. Why is health care an important context for critical inquiry? What concepts in health-care contexts