Organizational Communication Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication

   Edited by Derina Holtzhausen, Ansgar Zerfass

   The Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication provides a comprehensive review of research in the strategic communication domain and offers educators and graduate-level students a compilation of approaches to and studies of varying aspects of the field. The volume provides insights into ongoing...

   Published November 20th 2014 by Routledge
2. Corporate Communication

   A Marketing Viewpoint

   By Klement Podnar

   Corporate Communication: A Marketing Viewpoint offers an overview of the framework, key concepts, strategies and techniques from a unique marketing perspective. While other textbooks are limited to a managerial or PR perspective, this book provides a complete, holistic overview of the many ways...

   Published November 3rd 2014 by Routledge
3. Culture, Development and Petroleum

   An Ethnography of the High North

   By Jan-Oddvar Sornes, Larry Browning, Jan Terje Henriksen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Communication and Media

   The discovery, just forty years ago, of vast oil and gas reserves in the Southwestern part of Norway, and more recently in the Arctic High North region, created an economic titan and posed a vast array of challenges for both the Norwegian government and the residents of this area. How to extract...

   Published October 9th 2014 by Routledge
4. Power, Diversity and Public Relations

   By Lee Edwards

   Series: Routledge New Directions in Public Relations & Communication Research

   Power, Diversity and Public Relations addresses the lack of diversity in PR by revealing the ways in which power operates within the occupation to construct archetypal practitioner identities, occupational belonging and exclusion. It explores the ways in which the field is normatively constructed...

   Published September 23rd 2014 by Routledge
5. Visual Culture and Public Policy

   Towards a visual polity?

   By Victor Bekkers, Rebecca Moody

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   Traditionally, images have played an important role in politics and policy making, mostly in relation to propaganda and public communication. However, contemporary society is inundated with visual material due to the increasing ubiquity of media and visual technologies that facilitate the...

   Published July 18th 2014 by Routledge
6. Professional Communication at Work

   Interpersonal Strategies for Career Success

   By Joseph L. Chesebro

   This text prepares future professionals for success in the workplace through identifying interpersonal communication skills and strategies and exploring when, how, and why to use them. Informed by academic research, professional literature, and author Joseph L. Chesebro’s own experiences, the text...

   Published June 25th 2014 by Routledge
7. When Organization Fails

   Why Authority Matters

   By James R. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Van Every

   When Organization Fails: Why Authority Matters develops the study of authority as an area of investigation in organizational communication and management. As a research topic, authority has rarely been addressed in depth in the management and organizational communication literature. It is critical,...

   Published June 2nd 2014 by Routledge
8. People Skills for Public Managers

   By Suzanne Mccorkle, Stephanie Witt

   This book fills the need for a communication-based, public sector framed book. The authors combine just enough basic theory about communication with specific skill development in areas of immediate interest to those who work in the public sector. It also features a strong "practice" orientation,...

   Published May 30th 2014 by Routledge
9. Meeting the Challenge of Human Resource Management

   A Communication Perspective

   Edited by Vernon D. Miller, Michael E. Gordon

   While communicating is a vital skill for managers at all organizational levels and in all functional areas, human resource managers are expected to be especially adept communicators, given the important interpersonal component of their roles. Practitioners and scholars alike stand to benefit...

   Published May 27th 2014 by Routledge
10. Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure

    Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization

    By Anne Maydan Nicotera, Marcia J. Clinkscales, Felicia R. Walker

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    Understanding Organization Through Culture and Structure: Relational and Other Lessons From the African American Organization presents an innovative view of organizations and the communication processes that constitute them. Arguing that human beings are communicatively embedded in their cultures,...

    Published May 16th 2014 by Routledge