Organizational Communication : Foundations for Business and Collaboration

This text balances theory and application while at the same time offering a strong structure that helps students grasp key concepts and apply them to their everyday communication. A wide variety of topics are explored from basic communication principles, interpersonal communication within the organizational structure, and literacy and employee communication. In addition, current and controversial issues including ethical issues, crisis communication management and the effects of emerging communication technologies are also examined.

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.