Organizational Communication for Survival: Making Work, Work (4th Edition)

Assuming a unique perspective for an organizational communication text, this “handbook” focuses the reader on how to communicate with managers and peers to survive, thrive and prosper in organizational environments. Taking a “subordinate” approach, this “survival guide for employees” centers on understanding how and why managers communicate the ways they do and how employees can adapt their own communication skills to be more effective in the organizational environment. In fifteen straightforward chapters, this book provides clear and concise guidelines, along with a foundation of theory and scholarship, to help readers become more effective communicators in today's workforce.

Organizational Communication for Survival: Making Work, Work, 4/e

Virginia Peck Richmond, University of Alabama at Birmingham

James C. McCroskey, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Organizational Communication for Survival focuses on how to communicate with managers and peers to survive, thrive and prosper in different organizational environments. Mastering the study guide objectives in this book will prepare you to function in real organizational situations. As a “survival guide for employees,” this text centers on understanding how and why managers communicate the way they do and how you, as an employee, can adapt your own communication skills to be more effective.

Features of the New Edition:

• Includes a new chapter on discrimination and pseudodiscrimination, which distinguishes between the two concepts and provides you with strategies for dealing with both in organizations.
• Combines chapters on approaches to management and management communication style, streamlining the discussion, so you can better understand the interrelatedness between the two topics.
• References new scholarship and social scientific research on communication in organizations, and includes new examples, illustrating concepts that are relevant to you.