Charles R. Conrad, Marshall Scott Poole

Strategic Organizational Communication (eBook, ePUB)

In a Global Economy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Surveying a wide variety of disciplines, this fully-revised 7th edition offers a sophisticated and engaging treatment of the rapidly expanding field of organizational communication * Places organizations and organizational communication within a broader social, economic, and cultural context * Applies a global perspective throughout, including thoughtful consideration of non-Western forms of leadership, as well as global economic contexts * Offers a level of sophistication and integration of ideas from a variety of disciplines that makes this treatment definitive Updated in the seventh edition: * Coverage of recent events and their ethical dimensions, including the bank crisis and bailouts in the US and UK * Offers a nuanced, in-depth discussion of technology, and a new chapter on organizational change * Includes new and revised case studies for a fresh view on perennial topics, incorporating a global focus throughout * Online Instructors' Manual, including sample syllabi, tips for using the case studies, test questions, and supplemental case studies

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118179697
• Artikelnr.: 37341971

Autorenporträt

Charles Conrad is Professor of Organizational Communication at Texas A&M University. He has received more than a dozen college- and university-level teaching awards, including the National Communication Association's Donald Ecroyd Award. He is the author or editor of nine books, the most recent of which are Organizational Rhetoric (2011) and Global Engineering (2010). Marshall Scott Poole is Professor of Communication and Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has received several teaching awards and multiple research awards, including the Steven Chaffee Lifetime Productivity Award from the International Communication Association. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including Working Through Conflict (2008) and Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Unit I: Underlying Concepts 1. Strategic Organizational Communication 2.
Keys to Strategic Organizational Communication Unit II: Strategies of
Organizing 3. Traditional Strategies of Organizing 4. Relational Strategies
of Organizing 5. Cultural Strategies of Organizing 6. Network Strategies of
Organizing Postscript to Unit II: Contingency Perspective on Organizing
Strategies Unit III: Challenges in the 21st Century 7. Communication,
Power, and Politics in Organizations 8. Communication, Decision Making, and
Conflict in Organizations 9. Communciation and Organizational Change 10.
Communication and Diverse Workplaces 11. Communication, Globalization, and
Organizations 12. Communication, Ethics, and Organizational Rhetoric
Postscript to Unit III Epilogue

Rezensionen

"Strategic Organizational Communication has been truly revitalized with its comprehensive coverage of organizational issues within the communication community. Enhanced with new material on such issues as globalization, ethics, and change, the combination of in-depth reporting and pointed cases will provide students with useful, relevant insight into the complexities of organizational life."
- Cynthia Hardy, University of Melbourne

"Professors Conrad and Poole have maintained the solid core of critical analysis that has been the hallmark of this book, while thoroughly updating the cases and issues in the 7th edition. Bravo!"
- James A. Anderson, University of Utah