Book description
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
Charles Conrad
is a 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). His research focuses on the relationship among communication,
power, and politics, especially the communicative strategies used by
organizations to influence public policies and popular attitudes.
Marshall Scott Poole is a 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 Handbook of Organizational Change and
Innovation (2004) and Working Through Conflict (2008).
