Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research : Multiple Perspectives

Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research : Multiple Perspectives

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Book Description

“This book offers a refreshing and engaging overview of the ways some research traditions in organizational communication have unfolded over time and continue to be connected to everyday, real events.”
—Patrice Buzzanell, Purdue University
 
Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research: Multiple Perspectives is a book unlike any in the field. Each chapter is written by a prominent scholar who presents a theoretical perspective and discusses how he or she "engages" with it, personally examining what it means to study organizations. Rejecting the traditional model of a "reader," this volume demonstrates the intimate connections among theory, research, and personal experience.

Significant theoretical perspectives such as post-positivism, social construction, rhetoric, critical theory, feminism, postmodernism, structuration theory, and globalization are discussed in terms of their history, assumptions, development, propositions, research, and applications. In addition to editors Steve May and Dennis K. Mumby, contributors include Brenda J. Allen, Karen Lee Ashcraft, George Cheney, Steven R. Corman, Stanley Deetz, Robert McPhee, Marshall Scott Poole, Cynthia Stohl, Bryan C. Taylor, and James R. Taylor.

Key Features
• An introduction that addresses the idea of engaged research.
• Accessible and cutting edge accounts of important research traditions written by well-known leaders in the field.
• Personal accounts of each scholar's place in his or her field of study.
• A conclusion that explores the future of organizational communication studies.
• An extensive body of references on each perspective.

Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research is an indispensable resource for anyone wishing to be familiar with current trends in the field of organizational communication. It is recommended as the main text for upper-level undergraduate and entry-level graduate courses in organizational communication theory. It is also an excellent supplementary text for related courses in departments of communication studies, business and management, sociology, and industrial relations.

 

About the Author
Steve May (Ph.D., University of Utah, 1993) is associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also currently a Leadership Fellow at the Institute for the Arts and the Humanities, an Ethics Fellow at the Parr Ethics Center, and a researcher and ethics consultant for the Ethics at Work program at the Kenan Institute for Ethics.  His current research focuses on the relationship between work and identity, as it relates to the boundaries of public/private, work/family, and labor/leisure.  His research has explored the role of corporate counseling programs during organizational change and crisis, including downsizing, labor strikes, and accidents.  Most recently, he has studied the challenges and opportunities for organizational ethics and corporate social responsibility.  His most recent book project was Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research:  Multiple Perspectives, co-edited with Dennis Mumby. His next book, The Debates Over Corporate Social Responsibility, co-edited with George Cheney and Juliet Roper, will be published in 2006 by Oxford University Press. His organizational communication research has been published in journals such as Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Public Policy Yearbook, and Organizational Communication: Emerging Perspectives.  He is a past Forum Editor of Management Communication Quarterly and Associate Editor of The Journal of Applied Communication Research and The Journal of Business Communication.  

Dennis K. Mumby (Ph.D. and M.S., Southern Illinois University—Carbondale; B.A., Sheffield Hallam University [UK]) has research interests focusing on critical and postmodern approaches to the connections among power, discourse, gender, and identity in organizational settings. Prior to joining UNC in 2002, he’s held positions at Purdue University, Arizona State University, Rutgers University, and St. Cloud State University. He is widely published in journals and books (many with SAGE) is currently under contract with SAGE London for Organizing Gender: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Organization Studies (co-authored with Karen Ashcraft) and with Mayfield/McGraw-Hill for an introductory organizational communication, currently titled Organizational Communication: A Critical Perspective. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his teaching and his research from both universities and professional academic associations.

Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research : Multiple Perspectives,Steve May,Dennis K. Mumby,Sage Publications, Inc,0761928499,Business / Economics / Finance,Business Communication - General,Communication,Communication in organizations,Language,Language Arts & Disciplines,Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy,Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication

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