1st Edition

Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication A Comprehensive Introduction to the Field

Edited By Anne M. Nicotera Copyright 2020
    458 Pages
    by Routledge

    458 Pages
    by Routledge

    Origins and Traditions of Organizational Communication provides a sophisticated overview of the fundamentals of organizational communication as a field of study, examining the field’s foundations and providing an assessment of the field to date, explaining and demonstrating a communicational approach to the study of organization.

    It provides a set of literature reviews on focused topics written by experts in each area, and links organizational communication theory and research to practice. In reviewing foundational management theory, the book analyzes how early to mid-20th-century management theories shaped contemporary organizations, providing students both with background knowledge of these foundational theories and an understanding of their influence on our thinking and our organizational world.

    Written at an accessible level for early graduate students, yet still sophisticated enough for doctoral students, the book is ideal for students and teachers of organizational communication and communication history.

    Downloadable ancillary materials include chapter PowerPoints and a set of instructors' materials containing chapter abstracts, glossaries, discussion questions, annotated supplementary readings lists, and practitioners' corners. Please visit www.routledge.com/9781138570313.

    Part I: Organizational Communication History

    1. Organizing the Study of Organizational Communication

    Anne M. Nicotera

    2. Developments in the 20th Century

    Anne M. Nicotera

    3. Developments in the 21st Century

    Anne M. Nicotera

    4. Paradigms: Ways of Knowing in Organizational Communication

    Anne M. Nicotera

    Part II: Foundational Organizational Theory

    5. Classical Management Theory

    Anne M. Nicotera

    6. Human Relations Theory

    Anne M. Nicotera

    7. Human Resource Management Theory

    Anne M. Nicotera

    Part III: Topics in Theory and Research

    8. Socialization

    Patricia M. Sias and Yejin Shin

    9. Communication Networks

    Lisa V. Chewning

    10. Workplace Relationships

    Patricia M. Sias and Yejin Shin

    11. Identity and Identification

    Craig R. Scott

    12. Power and Resistance

    Heather M. Zoller and Zhuo Ban

    13. Gender and Feminist Theory

    Patrice Buzzanell

    14. Difference and Intersectionality

    Jamie McDonald

    15. Groups, Teams, and Decision Making

    Dawna I. Ballard and Dron M. Mandhana

    16. Conflict

    Jessica Katz Jameson

    17. A Communicative Approach to Leadership

    J. Kevin Barge

    18. The Structuration of Emotion

    Sarah J. Tracy and Shawna Malvini Redden

    19. Technology and Organizational Communication

    Keri Stephens and Kerk F. Kee

    20. Globalization and Organizational Communication

    Jennifer L. Gibbs and Shiv Ganesh

    21. Organizational Change

    Laurie Lewis

    Biography

    Anne M. Nicotera is Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication at George Mason University and an organizational communication consultant. Her research is grounded in a constitutive perspective. She has published six books and numerous articles in outlets such as Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Health Communication.