Organizational Communication for Survival : Making Work, Work

This work analyzes organizational communication from the viewpoint of the subordinates within it. It is intended to be useful as a supplementary text for courses focusing on organizational communications.

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.