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Organizational Communication for Survival : Making Work, Work by Virginia P. Richmond, Linda L. McCroskey and James C. McCroskey (2004, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAllyn & Bacon, Incorporated
ISBN-100205408001
ISBN-139780205408009
eBay Product ID (ePID)30506621
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameOrganizational Communication for Survival : Making Work, Work
Publication Year2004
SubjectBusiness Communication / General, Anthropology / General
FeaturesRevised
TypeTextbook
AuthorVirginia P. Richmond, Linda L. Mccroskey, James C. Mccroskey
Subject AreaSocial Science, Business & Economics
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number3
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2004-044591
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal658.4/5
Table Of ContentPreface. 1. The Nature of Organizations. Types of Organizations.Common Characteristics of All Organizations.Organizational Environments.Preliminary Principles for Peons.Viewing Organizations 2. The Nature of Communication in Organizations. Myths and Misconceptions about Communication in Organizations.Organizational Communication Defined.Components of Communication.Functions of Communication in Organizations.Organizational Communication Networks.Formal Communication Flow and Impact. 3. Nonverbal Behavior and Communication. Significance of Nonverbal Communication in Organizations.Functions of Nonverbal Messages.Categories of Nonverbal Messages.Immediacy and Organizational Communication. 4. Administration, Supervision, and Communication. Supervisors' Duties: Subordinates' Views.Why Aren't Managers Doing Their Jobs?To Supervise or to Administer? That Is the Question.What Kind of Manager Do You Have? 5. Barriers to Effective Communication. Climate Control.Status.Communication Overload.Handling OverloadDefensiveness. 6. Personality, Temperament, and Communication Traits. Personality and TemperamentTemperamentality/Personality and CommunicationCommunication TraitsSociocommunication Orientations and Styles 7. Organizational Orientations and Communication Traits. Organizational OrientationsPersonality TypesOrganizational Orientations and TemperamentOrganizational Orientations, Temperament, and Organizational Outcomes 8. Perceptions of People in Organizations. Source Credibility.Interpersonal Attractiveness.Homophily. 9. Approaches to Management. Early Orientations.Leadership Approaches.The Ideal Leader? 10. Management Communication Styles and Decision-Making. Decision-Making and CommunicationWhy Managers Select One MCS over Another.Identifying the MCS. 11. Power and Status. Nature of Status.Status Symbols.Communication and Status.Power.From the Peon's Perspective. 12. Organizational Culture. Defining Culture.Culture and Communication.Cultural Terminology.Organizations and Cultures.Ethnocentrism. 13. Communication and Change. Why People Resist Change in Organizations.Informal Communication Network Roles.Innovativeness: The Willingness to Adopt.Introducing ChangeStages of the Adoption ProcessCharacteristics or Attributes of InnovationsSix Conditions Necessary for Successful Change. 14. Disagreement, Conflict, and Groupthink. Disagreement and Conflict.Tolerance for Disagreement.Conflict Prevention.Conflict Management.Groupthink: Too Much Agreement for the Good of the Organization. 15. Effective Supervisory and Subordinate Relationships. Why Some Do Not Survive: Ten Common Communication Mistakes.How to Survive: Common Communication Strategies for Survival. Index.
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisAssuming a unique perspective for an organizational communication text, this "handbook" focuses students on how to communicate with managers and peers to survive, thrive and prosper in organizational environments. Taking a "subordinate" approach, this "survival guide for employees" centers on understanding how and why managers communicate the ways they do and how employees can adapt their own communication skills to be more effective in the organizational environment. In fifteen simple chapters, this text provides clear and concise guidelines, along with a foundation of theory and scholarship, to help students learn to become more effective communicators in today's workforce., Assuming a unique perspective for an organizational communication text, this handbook focuses students on how to communicate with managers and peers to survive, thrive and prosper in organizational environments. Taking a subordinate approach, this survival guide for employees centers on understanding how and why managers communicate the ways they do and how employees can adapt their own communication skills to be more effective in the organizational environment. In fifteen simple chapters, this text provides clear and concise guidelines, along with a foundation of theory and scholarship, to help students learn to become more effective communicators in today's workforce.
LC Classification NumberHD30.3R53 2005
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