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Master essential communication skills for your career and your daily life with ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION! Coverage includes a wide variety of topics such as basic communication principles, interpersonal communication within the organizational structure, and literacy and employee communication. Cases found in each chapter demonstrate how the organizational communication theories discussed in the text apply to real-life. Studying is made easy with tools such as communication examples, ethical probes, learning objectives, and toolbox summaries found throughout the text.
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The writing was easy to understand. Chapters were concise and to the point. Each topic was covered thoroughly.
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It is very readable. It uses lots of examples that relate to the information being covered. It is not too heavy with the theory. The writing is not too heavy with scholarly talk and academ-ese. Most of the chapters attempt to cover good topics for a course in org com.
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The main strength of the text was practical examples of the sometimes abstract concepts. I found the text to be straightforward and informative. I wouldn?t change a thing. My good grades so far as a testament to it.
About the Author
Alan Zaremba is an associate professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Buffalo and since then has taught at Northeastern University and at the State University of New York College at Fredonia.
Dr. Zaremba is the author of MASS COMMUNICATION AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: A CASE STUDY OF PRESS REACTIONS TO THE 1973 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR and MANAGEMENT IN A NEW KEY: COMMUNICATION IN THE MODERN ORGANIZATION. He has written several articles on the interdependent subjects of Management and Communication that have appeared in Personnel Journal, Business Marketing, The Quality Observer, the Journal of Employee Communication Management, and Industrial Management
Dr. Zaremba has received awards for excellence in teaching on four occasions. He has earned excellence in teaching awards twice from Northeastern University (2003 and 1984), and also was honored by the State University of New York in 1980. In 2001 he was one of two alums to receive an Excellence in Education award from his alma mater. Dr. Zaremba is author of ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION: FOUNDATIONS FOR BUSINESS AND COLLABORATION, 2nd Edition.
Table of Contents
PART 1. FOUNDATIONS. 1. Organizational Communication: An Introduction. 2. Management Theory and Organizational Communication. 3. Ethics and Organizational Communications. PART 2. COMMUNICATION IN A COMPLEX SYSTEM. 4. Managing Information. 5. Communication Networks. 6. Communication Climate and Organizational Culture. PART 3. COMMUNICATION CONTEXTS. 7. Meetings: Conflict and Intervention. 8. Professional Presentations. 9. Interpersonal Conflict and Communication. 10. Composing the Written Message. PART 4. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES. 11. Intercultural Communication and the Organization. 12. Crisis Communication. 13. Assessing Organizational Communication Quality. 14. Careers.