2nd Edition
Origins, Traditions, and Trends of Organizational Communication A Comprehensive Introduction to the Field
PART I – ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION HISTORY
1. Organizing the Study of Organizational Communication
Anne M. Nicotera and Xavier D. Clark
2. Developments in the 20th Century
Anne M. Nicotera
3. Developments in the 21st Century
Anne M. Nicotera
4. Postcolonial Approaches to Organizational Communication
Anne M. Nicotera and Angela N. Gist-Mackey
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
Yejin Shin
9. Communication Networks
Lisa V. Chewning
10. Workplace Relationships
Yejin Shin
11. Identity and Identification
Craig R. Scott and Rebecca J. Meisenbach
12. Power and Resistance
Heather M. Zoller and Zhuo Ban
13. Engaging Feminist Organizational Communication Scholarship and Activism for our Times
Patrice Buzzanell
14. Engaging Scholarship on Difference and Intersectionality in Challenging Times
Jamie McDonald
15. Groups, Teams, and Decision Making
Dawna I. Ballard, Dron M. Mandhana, and Yohanna Tesfai
16. Organizational Conflict
Chandler Marr and 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 (PhD, Ohio University) is Professor of Communication at George Mason University, USA. Her research, grounded in a constitutive perspective, focuses on intractable conflict, race and gender, and aggressive communication, with particular interest in healthcare organizations, postcolonial approaches, and anti-racism. Her research has been published in numerous communication and health-related journals, as well as in six books and numerous chapters. Her applied work focuses on designing and delivering organizational communication-based management and leadership training. She is the organizer for the biennial D.C. Health Communication (DCHC) Conference.
