Organizational Communication

Michael J. Papa - Central Michigan University, USA
Tom D. Daniels - Ohio University, USA
Barry K. Spiker - Argosy University

Other Titles in:
Management Communication | Organization Studies (General) | Organizational Communication

January 2008 | 472 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

The Fifth Edition of this best-selling introductory organizational communication textbook continues to examine and explore the problems and paradoxes of organizational communication and the changing features of organizational life that have been revealed through the application of pluralistic perspectives. The implications of race, gender, technology, and increasing globalization to organizational communication all receive expanded treatment.

Preface

Prologue

1. An Orientation to Organizational Communication

Organization and Communication

Perspectives on Organizational Communication

2. Communication and Its Functions

A Precaution: Function and Structure Relationship

Communication, Information, and Meaning

Functions of Communication

3. Organizational Communication Structure

Traditional Approach to Structure

Formal Communication

Informal Communication

Communication Structure as a Network

Interpretive Approaches to Communication Structure

Critical Approaches to Communication Structure

4. Organization Theory: Prescriptions for Control

Scientific and Classical Management

Transitional Theories

The Human Relations Movement

Human Resource Development

5. Organization Theory: Metaphors of Biology

System Theory

Weick's Theory of Organizing

Luhmann's Social Systems Theory

Evolutionary Psychology

6. Organizational Theory: Communication and Culture

Communication and Culture: A Way to Understand Organizations

Approaches to Understanding Organizational Culture

Describing Organizational Culture: The Case of Ben & Jerry's

7. Information Technology

Information Technology and Change

Traditional Perspective

Interpretive Perspective

Critical Perspective

8. Cultural Control, Diversity, and Change

Cultural Control

Organizational Culture and Diversity

Traditional Perspectives on Cultural Control, Diversity, and Change

Interpretive Perspectives on Cultural Control, Diversity, and Change

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Control, Diversity, and Change

The Ethics of Diversity

9. Group Relationships

Traditional Perspective on Group Relationships

Interpretive Perspective on Group Relationships

Critical Perspective on Group Relationships

10. Leader-Member Relationships

Limitations of Leadership Theory and Research

Traditional Perspective

Interpretive Perspective

Critical Perspective

11. Power

Traditional Views of Status and Power

Interpretive Perspectives on Power

Power in the View of Critical Theory

Power and Conflict: Connected and Separate Phenomena

12. Conflict

Traditional Perspectives on Conflict

Interpretive Perspectives on Conflict

Critical Perspectives on Conflict

Ethics in Conflict

13. Strategic Communication

Characteristics of Strategic Communication

The Traditional Perspective

The Interpretive Perspective

The Critical Perspective

14. New Millennium Thought: Perspectives and Trends

Perspectives on the New Millennium

Traditional Perspectives and the New Millennium

Interpretive Perspectives and the New Millennium

Critical Perspectives and the New Millennium

Trends Influencing Organizations Today

I chose a newer book.

William Turner

Communications, Southwest Tenn Cmty Clg-Macon

September 19, 2019

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Good organizational communication textbook with thorough discussion of various perspectives. Could be improved by new edition with updated case studies.

Dr Shari Hoppin

Speech Theatre Dept, Troy University - Troy

July 25, 2013

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very useful book for students studying organizations and communication. covers a lot of organizational/communicational aspects.

Mrs Anna karina Kjeldsen

Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University

April 18, 2013

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no longer teaching the course

Dr Carolyn Cunningham

Communication Arts Dept, Gonzaga University